He did more than that. In Bxxxix he writes: From B275 onwards is Kant's Refutation of Idealism, where he states that our inner experience is only poss...
I am sure that not only is it the case that for each paragraph making a substantive point, another paragraph may be found making a contradictory point...
Who determines that the semantic meaning of cat is "animal" rather than "very large plant-eating mammals with a prehensile trunk"? It could be that pe...
Why can't the expression "cats are very large plant-eating mammals with a prehensile trunk" be part of the body of analytic knowledge? It fulfils both...
You have stipulated the definition of cat as an animal , meaning that the expression "cats are animals" is analytic and true. I stipulate the definiti...
True, if a cat is defined as part of the Kingdom Animalia , then a cat is an animal, and the expression "cats are animals" is true and analytic. But t...
To my understanding, these comments seem to ignore the importance of the empirical in the nature of Kant's Transcendental Deductions. My position is a...
On the left of the screen under "Categories" is a section "Help", but is quite minimal. 1) To reply to someone, highlight a relevant part of their pos...
To know whether the expression "cats are animals " is analytic, one needs to know the meaning of "cats", "are" and "animals". As an example, how is "c...
From the SEP article: Montague Semantics- the most important feature is the principle of compositionality, such that the meaning of the whole is a fun...
I'm afraid @Shawn was last heard of 11 months ago. I have never taken part in a Reading group, but I guess this thread is as close to a reading group ...
In his article Meaning Postulates in Philosophical Studies, Carnap writes that his Meaning Postulates only refer to a semantical language-system, not ...
How does Kant justify that transcendental deduction is possible? Kant justifies that humans have this ability in giving an example of a Transcendental...
Yes, I agree that the Old Year did not cause the New Year, it was just an antecedent. However, without the Old Year there would be no New Year. Thanks...
Yes, we couldn't perceive objects without the footing of space, time, form and differentiation. But suppose we never had this footing in the first pla...
If human reason cannot be explained in terms of evolutionary adaption, how did it originate? =========================================================...
Can the expression "cats are animals" be analytic? As you wrote "Analytic expressions are expressions of language that can be verified as completely t...
Consider "cats are animals". However, there is no absolute meaning of "cat" and no absolute meaning of "animal", in that no two dictionaries will have...
Kant doesn't believe that we have innate principles or ideas, but discover them from careful reflection on experience. From the SEP article on The His...
Yes, this fits in with Hume. The problem is with Kant. How can he discover what is necessary and universal just from experiences using transcendental ...
Kant distinguishes transcendental deduction from empirical deduction A85 - I therefore call the explanation of the way in which concepts can relate to...
There is circularity here. From 1): if an expression is part of a Body of Analytic Truth (BOAK), it is true and analytic. From 2): if an expression is...
Consider a computer generated language that does not depend on any external information. Rather than the expression "cats are animals", consider the m...
Starting with the expression "X is Y", let the meaning of X be the same as the meaning of Y. The expression "X is Y" is then an analytic expression as...
In chess, the rule that the Bishop can only move diagonally is arbitrary, in that the rule could equally have been that it moves vertically or horizon...
As the topic is front page news at the moment, it may be worth a post or two. True, the passage is in quotation marks and we know it is somewhere with...
Yes. If animals were born with minds empty of any built-in mental content, and had to learn the private subjective feeling of pain from their subseque...
Kant and Hume You are saying that we come up with a theory that we use as long as it corresponds with our experiences and is coherent with the other t...
This sounds like Hume's position, in that we look at the world, see a particular sunrise on 100 consecutive days and theorise that in general the sun ...
As the word "are" has many different meanings, is the expression "cats are animals" true under all possible meanings of "are"? For example, possible u...
The mystery is with Kant not Hume There is no mystery to me with Hume's inductive approach to making sense of experiences, inferring from several part...
True. It's not intended to constitute an argument, more a statement of fact. In the same way that your statement "Thus, Kant's answer to Hume was to a...
This is debated. For example "Several scholars take Kant's statement at face value. They claim that Kant did not endorse concept innatism, that the ca...
It seems to me that in the section on Refutation of Idealism, Kant does argue that we can use reason to transcend our sensibilities. B275 - The proof ...
This sounds like Berkeley's Subjective Idealism, which denies the existence of material substance in the world and contends that familiar objects like...
In Transcendental Idealism there is a priori pure intuition of space and time and a priori pure concepts of the understanding, ie, the Categories Ther...
Then where does Kant get his solid ground for infallible knowledge of solid material existence in the empirical world? ===============================...
As an Indirect Realist, from the Indirect part of Indirect Realism, the red postbox exists in my mind and not the world. From the Realism part of Indi...
"Matter" and "red" are words in language and concepts in the mind. As I perceive a red postbox in the world, I can also perceive solid matter in the w...
For Kant, matter existing in the world is noumena, and as noumena cannot be cognized, it cannot therefore be talked about From the SEP article on Kant...
For Kant, we know the form of the Eiffel Tower from its appearance as phenomena. However, we cannot know the matter of the Eiffel Tower from Sensible ...
If all the metal was removed from the Eiffel Tower, what would be left. An idea of the Eiffel Tower would be left. If by "thing" one means an idea in ...
Robert Paul Wolff Wolff said "the foundation of the distinction is that Kant thinks that through sensibility we are placed in direct relation with ind...
Some concepts are innate prior to any phenomena Suppose you touch sandpaper and feel a rough sensation and then touch silk and feel a smooth sensation...
Kant doesn't justify his premise that we have a priori pure intuitions and a priori pure concepts of the understanding. I suggest that his premise can...
Although my position is from Indirect Realism, can it be true that the content of all the scientific literature about the Universe prior to life can b...
Surely good philosophy needs to justify its premises. If I said that aliens from Mars are running all governments, and made no attempt to justify my s...
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