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In: Infinity  — view comment
"Infinity of infinites" in natural language In natural language, we know the meaning of the word "infinity", yet infinity is unknowable by the finite ...
February 14, 2024 at 14:17
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I find that hard to believe. How is it possible to imagine a unicorn by not picturing a unicorn? How is it possible to imagine the number 6 without pi...
February 14, 2024 at 14:15
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I can only imagine a unicorn by picturing a unicorn. A picture requires a "concrete instantiation". A "concrete instantiation" can be on a screen or a...
February 13, 2024 at 14:55
In: Infinity  — view comment
I imagine a unicorn by picturing a unicorn. How do you imagine a unicorn if you don't picture a unicorn? =============================================...
February 13, 2024 at 13:19
In: Infinity  — view comment
A fictional object sounds like an object. The OED notes "There are 14 meanings listed in OED's entry for the noun object, four of which are labelled o...
February 13, 2024 at 09:41
In: Infinity  — view comment
"A mythical animal typically represented as a horse with a single straight horn projecting from its forehead" describes an object, even through the ob...
February 12, 2024 at 14:34
In: Infinity  — view comment
Can there be a description without an object being described? Isn't "a person who can speak English" a description of the object (a person who can spe...
February 12, 2024 at 10:40
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That raises the interesting question that if an expression such as "infinite infinities" has no meaning in a natural language, the everyday spoken and...
February 12, 2024 at 10:04
In: Infinity  — view comment
In a random web site is set a problem that can be solved by set theory: Doesn't this problem, soluble by set theory, assume "objects", such as the obj...
February 11, 2024 at 14:54
In: Infinity  — view comment
I take the OP as asking the question "are there an infinite number of infinities?" The answer would depend on whether looked at from set theory or nat...
February 11, 2024 at 12:49
In: Infinity  — view comment
But then again, the number 2 does not exist until it is thought up.
February 10, 2024 at 14:41
In: Infinity  — view comment
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February 10, 2024 at 12:32
In: Infinity  — view comment
In the Merriam Webster dictionary infinity is classed as a noun, and within mathematics is the infinity symbol ?. But as you say, this is problematic ...
February 10, 2024 at 10:01
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True, infinite is an adjective and infinity is a noun But it can get complicated. Music fills the infinite between the two souls - Rabindranath Tagore...
February 09, 2024 at 17:41
In: Infinity  — view comment
There cannot be different sizes of infinite sets As you say: "Infinity is a property of motion or action..............Infinite number means that you k...
February 09, 2024 at 16:54
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I agree. "Infinite" is a property attached to an object, such as "large house" or "infinite number". As "large" doesn't exist as an object, "infinite"...
February 09, 2024 at 09:39
In: Infinity  — view comment
Yes, for example as in "infinite number" where "infinite" is a property of "number".
February 09, 2024 at 08:38
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Can there be infinite infinities? Can there be an infinite set of (infinite set of numbers)? The word "infinite" is not a noun but an adjective qualif...
February 08, 2024 at 17:17
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Hopefully this doesn't contradict what @"TonesInDeepFreeze" has said. It seems that if the word "infinity" was being used as a noun, then yes, there w...
February 08, 2024 at 09:47
There are several things in your posts that I don't agree with, but as I am off on holiday, I won't be able to tackle them. However, I think you are m...
January 20, 2024 at 11:44
Not necessarily. Just because I cannot see a unicorn doesn't mean that I think unicorns are real. From Wikipedia Direct and Indirect Realism I see the...
January 20, 2024 at 09:40
Exactly. This is the point that Kant is making in the CPR, and as an Indirect Realist, something I totally agree with. However, I don't think that the...
January 20, 2024 at 09:09
There are many uses for the word "world". There is the world of dance, the world of science, the world of literature, the world inside our minds, the ...
January 20, 2024 at 09:06
It depends what you mean by "external world". There is the external world that I perceive as Appearance, and there is the external world outside me th...
January 19, 2024 at 17:41
In B276 Kant refers to objects existing outside any human observer: "The mere, but empirically determined, consciousness of my own existence proves th...
January 19, 2024 at 13:43
I assume you know your own existence within time, yet you don't seem to believe in an external world. As you wrote: ==================================...
January 19, 2024 at 10:59
In B276, Kant starts his proof with "I am conscious of my existence as determined in time." He doesn't start his proof with "I am conscious of my exis...
January 19, 2024 at 09:28
The Empirical World inside us we know through our sensibilities. The Mind-Independent World outside us we know through Transcendental Reasoning about ...
January 18, 2024 at 17:32
The Mind-Independent world can only be known using transcendental reason. Reasoning is a logical connection between several strands of an argument, fo...
January 18, 2024 at 16:23
I wrote that there are different "Worlds". One exists within the mind, an "Empirical World", and the other exists outside the mind, a "Mind Independen...
January 18, 2024 at 13:23
The Empirical World is the world of Phenomena, and the Mind-Independent World is the world of Things in Themselves. I am sure that the Mind-Independen...
January 18, 2024 at 13:18
As a Mind-Independent World can only be known by transcendental reason, and as a single photograph can only show the form of reason and not its conten...
January 18, 2024 at 13:10
Even if I uploaded a photo of a Mind-Independent World, the Solipsist wouldn't believe it.
January 17, 2024 at 17:43
All around us. It existed before us and will exist after us. =============================================================================== To show t...
January 17, 2024 at 16:00
All this is true, in that you see the book in your Empirical World, the world that exists as Appearance in your Sensibilities. The world as Phenomena....
January 17, 2024 at 12:39
Meaning of "Empirical World" Does the Empirical World exist within Appearances or does it exist the other side of these Appearances, whatever is causi...
January 17, 2024 at 10:22
Kant wrote that we cannot have knowledge of a Thing in Itself. From Wikipedia Thing-in-itself Do you have a reference that says that Kant believes tha...
January 16, 2024 at 15:52
On the one hand, Kant held that we can never know about Things in Themselves, we can never have knowledge of Things in Themselves. Things in Themselve...
January 15, 2024 at 15:08
For Kant, a stick in the world outside us is a Thing-in-Itself and therefore unknowable. Being unknowable, it is impossible to judge whether bent or s...
January 15, 2024 at 09:33
There is a world outside the mind, and there is a world inside the mind, of streets with cars and building. The same word "world" is being used to ref...
January 14, 2024 at 17:31
A mountain could weigh a billion tonnes, so it is hardly surprising that the camera doesn't think it has a mountain in its memory card. Even people on...
January 14, 2024 at 17:00
True. There is no reason to think that if something doesn't exist outside me then it must exist inside me. ===========================================...
January 14, 2024 at 16:49
For Kant, the pure intuition of space and time and the pure concepts of the understanding provide the possibility of experience, they don't provide th...
January 13, 2024 at 09:06
Yes, this is what Kant is saying, that the pure concepts of understanding is a prior condition for experience. IE, without these pure concepts of unde...
January 12, 2024 at 17:46
When you look at a world containing a street with cars and buildings, if this world was not internal to your mind, how would you be able to think abou...
January 12, 2024 at 13:01
But that is what Kant is saying in the CPR, that the a priori intuitions of space and time and a priori pure concepts of the Understanding, ie the Cat...
January 12, 2024 at 08:53
Yes, if we perceive the world through our senses, then, of necessity, the world exists. We perceive things in our senses, including touch, taste, smel...
January 11, 2024 at 16:11
As our only access to a possible outside us is through our senses, how can we prove that there is a world on the other side of these senses when we on...
January 11, 2024 at 13:25
The knowledge as set out in his Theorem in B276 that objects exist in space outside us.
January 11, 2024 at 11:40
For Kant, it was more than a belief that objects exist outside us, as from B276 onwards he goes on to propose a proof that objects do exist outside us...
January 11, 2024 at 10:09