It is beyond my comprehension that in a Universe 93 billion light years across that has existed for around 13 billion years, the determinacy of the pa...
As you wrote, Bergson believed that subjective time ("duration", "lived time") of the conscious individual is able to transcend the objective time of ...
You write that the three modalities of time, the past, the present and the future, are really one, and are to be understood within metaphysics, about ...
Why should it be that because a photon's path through space and time is unknowable to an observer, that its path is not spatially and temporally objec...
That's how I see it. Suppose a photon of light leaves an object and arrives at an eye 100 metres away. On its way to the eye, the photon passes throug...
A clock strikes four times. There is the quantitative. In the world, each strike is independent of the others. As you wrote “Each successive ‘now’ of ...
@"Number2018" makes the point that clocks don't measure time, as each successive "now" of the clock contains nothing of the past. By the same argument...
A clock shows 2pm and then the clock shows 3pm. There is a physical change in what the clock shows. You say that physical change requires subjective t...
Does mathematics describe change or does it in fact describe difference? The conscious mind as well as the clock can only exist in the "now". As @"Num...
There is the question as to how "subjective time" relates to time. We have a memory of driving through the city and we are aware of presently walking ...
I'm not sure that this is exactly what Kant was proposing. He writes about time and space in The Transcendental Aesthetic, B46 of the CPR. Space and t...
It is a problem of terminology. In my P4, I was thinking about @MoK's use of the terms "subjective time", "psychological time" and "objective time". M...
Yes, Kant in the "Transcendental Aesthetic" in his CPR argues that time and space are not properties of the external world, but are a priori forms of ...
Useful post. I can agree that there is objective time and psychological time, but I am unsure that there is subjective time. P1 - Objective time is in...
What is the "big picture" if not "all the details"? The big picture is a particular relation between its details. Consider only three details: A, B an...
Books have been written about cognition, but the brain can be more direct. Given only eight pictures, each of which is labelled either as a "kitabi" o...
I agree that when I see a chair, to me it is a chair, but to an ant it is probably not a chair. I agree that there is a lot in common to when I see a ...
In Philosophical talk, there is the abstract and universal, the broad brush strokes, and the particular and concrete, the fine lines. I don't agree wi...
Appreciate your replies, but I have run out of time. The world is not inherently moral/aesthetic, so why should being in the world be inherently moral...
The SEP article Notes to Seventeenth-Century Theories of Consciousness writes that there is some dispute whether Descartes believed that there were no...
Kant may be a Representationalist, but not everything can be reduced to a representation. Is his space and time a representation? Are his Categories r...
Kant did not believe that everything must be reduced to representation. In his Refutation of Idealism CPR B275, he concludes that both time determinat...
The point at issue is Michel Henry's problem with Kant's Transcendental idealism which Henry characterises as "I represent to myself that I think" Thi...
A hand cannot grasp itself, but nevertheless, is proof of an external world, as Moore wrote in Proof of an External World In addition, as Descartes mi...
We can experience an aesthetic, and we can experience the colour red. Both stand alone in the mind, in that an aesthetic experience is distinct from t...
As I will be away shortly, I may not have time to fully respond to your previous post, though I will try. Person A says that this couch is good for si...
There are sixteen points I would like to respond to, but like a jigsaw puzzle I am tackling them one at a time. However, shortly I will be away for a ...
There are similarities between the topics of science and aesthetics which are more than coincidental. One the one hand, aesthetics is about the relati...
Science and aesthetics cannot be separated as they are two aspects of the same human imagination. Science depends on the beauty of the equation and ae...
A valuable post. If I may add my thoughts to your conversation. I am using "here is one hand" to indicate a proposition in language and (here is one h...
I cannot really respond as I have limited knowledge of Husserl, Heidegger and Existentialism in general. However, in my agreement with Linguistic Idea...
Wittgenstein in Tractatus did not describe facts as lived truths Do you have any reference that supports you in describing prelinguistic facts as live...
:smile: I appreciate your definition. Prelinguistic In the world are facts, such as i) here is one hand, ii) the apple is green, iii) the mountain is ...
Today, that "here is one hand" means waving one hand is beyond doubt, and is therefore a hinge. Neither "here is one hand" nor waving one hand is a hi...
I can understand Phenomenology as part of a personal philosophy, but it seems limited if it made up the whole of a personal philosophy. Phenomenology ...
There are thoughts, language and the world, and there is the question as to how these relate. The three theories of perception, Idealism, Direct Reali...
There seems to be three main theories of perception: Idealism, Direct Realism and Indirect Realism. For the Direct Realist, i) the external world exis...
As Wittgenstein wrote, Moore knows that the earth existed long before his birth, and we all know the same as he (OC 84). I only know about the earth b...
A historical individual or institution decided that when someone waves one hand the action is to be named "here is one hand", rather than "here are fi...
You believe that the world is totally separate to us. However, this was not the case for Wittgenstein. According to GEM Anscombe in her paper "The Que...
In other words, if someone asked me "is it true that hinges are beyond doubt", I might say "yes". If someone asked me "is it true that one feels pain ...
But is what Wittgenstein believed? Is it not the case that Wittgenstein believed that our language "is" our world, where the world is embedded in lang...
Introduction, Body, Conclusion. Perhaps a Body of four sections. In support: Section one of 400 words - Ghandi. "There is no path to peace; peace is t...
But how can it be closed? Our only direct knowledge is that of the sensations in our five senses. We perceives shapes and colours, relations and quant...
The good thing about a philosophical essay is that the author needs to defend their thesis using a clear and well structured argument, critically anal...
Yes, but perhaps for a different reason. There is language and there is the world. For the Direct and Indirect Realist, there is a world that exists i...
Wittgenstein defines what we call the hinge proposition as being a proposition that is exempt from doubt. For Wittgenstein, if "here is one hand" is a...
There is a difference between asking is it true that "here is one hand" and asking "is it true that here is one hand". Asking is it true that "here is...
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