If Structuralism focuses on the way that human experience and behaviour is determined by various structures external to the individual, then it is suf...
It seems that the post-modernism of the French post-structuralists in the 1970's can also be traced back to the Wittgenstein's investigation into the ...
There are similarities between Rouse's postmodern view that we can never get outside our language and Wittgenstein's view, as a possible anti-realist ...
What other ways are you thinking of, of how the subjective mind of colours, pains, fears and hopes relates to the objective world of rocks, mountains,...
Wittgenstein writes that the meaning of a word exists in the relation between the mind and the world. PI 43. For a large class of cases—though not for...
As Wittgenstein said, board games and card games may not have anything in common, but they do have similarities, which he calls "family resemblances"....
Given that concepts in the mind pick out categories in the world, the question is, which came first, the concept in the mind or the category in the wo...
Wittgenstein's and Aristotle's categories have different purposes, in that they are trying to achieve different things. Aristotle's categories are try...
I agree that when sleeping and dreaming, appearances have not been directly caused by things external to the mind. The question is that when awake, is...
For two reasons, common sense and textual. Common sense What kinds of objects are things in themselves. From A29 of CPR: For in this case that which i...
Science tells us the Universe began about 13.8 billion years ago, and life began on Earth about 3.8 billion years ago. Is Davies saying that as the Un...
I can only speak from general knowledge, but whilst I agree that colour has different linguistic and social meaning between different cultures, I don'...
The visible spectrum is the portion of the electromagnetic spectrum that is visible to the human eye. A typical human eye will respond to wavelengths ...
It seems "things in themselves" refer to several objects of experience, whilst "thing in itself" refers to one object of experience. From the CPR: B x...
Although Kant distinguished between positive noumena and negative noumena, as he didn't think positive noumena were possible, because they would requi...
It depends what is being meant by realism and idealism. It comes down to definition, which are difficult to pin down, especially when there was even a...
In what way is pointing out that Kant didn't have the advantage of knowing about evolution irrelevant to when it comes to finding a solution to the pr...
As an Indirect Realist, yes. I believe that space and time existed independently of the human mind for at least the 10 billion years before life began...
As an Indirect Realist, something I definitely agree with. Indirect Realism is the view of perception that subjects do not experience the external wor...
Kant (1724 to 1804) unfortunately didn't have the advantage of Darwin's book On the Origin of Species 1859, so couldn't include the theory of evolutio...
This is the same problem as to how we are able to perceive any concept, such as triangles, the colour red, mountains, love, giraffes, tables, apples, ...
Totally agree, and also a position held by the Indirect Realists. However, this is different to ChatGPT's quote that "For Kant, noumena are things-in-...
As he writes in A370 of the CPR, "The transcendental idealist, on the contrary, can be an empirical realist", this suggests that the idea that Kant wa...
When someone looks at an object emitting a wavelength of 700nm they perceive a particular colour. The English speaking world has determined that not o...
Kant was a Realist not an Idealist The following is mainly taken from SEP - Kant's Transcendental Idealism Kant is committed to Existence, Humility, N...
Hugh Urban has described chaos magic as a union of traditional occult techniques and applied postmodernism. As a believer in neither the occult nor po...
The distinction between knowing-how and knowing-that was brought to prominence in epistemology by Gilbert Ryle who used it in his book The Concept of ...
Yes. As the Wikipedia article on Postmodernism writes: Postmodernism is an intellectual stance or mode of discourse characterized by skepticism toward...
That's the direction many think Society is heading towards at the moment. As the Wikipedia article on Criticism of postmodernism writes: Postmodernism...
In today's terms it's referred to as Innatism. Chomsky mentions it. SEP - Innateness and Language The philosophical debate over innate ideas and their...
There may well be, but does anyone agree what they are. It also depends whether one is using the Correspondence, Semantic, Deflationary, Coherence or ...
I can only Kant understand through an analogy. We perceive the colour red, yet science tells us the cause of our perceiving the colour red is a wavele...
Kant is saved from nihilism by his categories of understanding, which includes that of cause and effect. He wrote in Prolegomena to any Future Metaphy...
A couple of thoughts. Concept vs intuition As there is a distinction between phenomena and noumena, for Kant, there is also a distinction between conc...
We see a large disorganised group of people, which are facts in the world. One person may connect the fact disorganised with the fact group of people ...
Totally agree. The Wikipedia article on Chaos Magic writes that our perception of the world is conditioned by our prior beliefs, and our perception of...
This is the same problem with Direct Realism. For example, we see the colour red, yet science tells us the cause is a wavelength of 700nm. In Kant's t...
Kant wrote in A249 of Critique of Pure Reason that noumena, aka things-in-themselves, are given to a priori intuition. Note that intuitions are not co...
The trick, as used by many writers on philosophy, including sometimes the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, is to start by arranging a set of appro...
A line is not a set of points, a line passes through a set of points A straight line certainly exists as a concept in the mind. This allows us to talk...
A general question about lines in the world outside the mind. We define a line as something that passes through an infinite number of points, where ea...
The relationship between the mind and a world outside the mind is critical to answering your original question: "which one is ultimate, the straight o...
I assume we accept that rocks in the world don't have minds. I assume we accept that when we dream about a rock, the rock we dream about has been crea...
A thing that is dreamt about, such as a rock, which in our dream doesn't have a mind, in our dream is mind-independent. Yet this thing, this rock, bec...
I need to make the meaning of "world" more explicit. From my personal observations, backed up by science and all founded on Innatism, my belief is tha...
In the mind, definitions and relations between absolutes exist. The world, however, is another matter. As the SEP article on Relations wrote: Some phi...
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