The implications of the performative utterance are manyfold. Private Facts and Public Facts I see an object. There are brute facts that it is made of ...
I don't think that we can say both. I look at a rose and light of a wavelength of 700 nm travels from the rose to my eye. I look at a sunset and light...
In JR Searle's lecture at the Czech Academy of Sciences 2011 on visual perception, he said "I think the rejection of naive realism was the single grea...
For the Indirect Realist, Institutional Facts must be metaphorical From a position of Indirect Realism, in that I cannot perceive the external world a...
An object becoming a bishop or a combination of letters becoming a word are historical events A combination of letters or a piece on a chess board don...
You are defining "reason" and "truth" in a limited way, as being dependent upon what is on the other side of the "wall". You say that reason is the at...
Interpreting what you wrote in my own terms. You wrote: I am far less interested in objects than I am in the self. We begin with the self, the "I" tha...
A question Kant said that a priori knowledge is "knowledge that is absolutely independent of all experience". I propose that such priori knowledge is ...
Kant's a priori pure intuitions I agree with you that Kant in Critique of Pure Reason argued that we can only understand the truth of the noumena in t...
A modern interpretation of Kant's Transcendental Idealism To date I am using the analogy that our a priori knowledge is the hardware of the brain, and...
Kant's Transcendental Idealism Determinism My belief is that every thought or feeling we have is expressed within the physical structure of the brain....
So far we have three words: instinct, ability and knowledge. Instinct is an innate fixed pattern of behaviour. Ability is the possession of the skill ...
As regards instinct, babies have an innate instinct to move away from heat. However, I am sure that babies also have certain innate knowledge. Babies ...
The dates were intended to reinforce the idea that Kant was not able to benefit from Darwin's later work on the theory of evolution, in that today we ...
At the very least we need to be able to reason in order to survive. As Hoffman argued, reason allows us to navigate the world around us and has evolve...
I had been reading The Critique of the Power of Judgement because of my interest in aesthetics. The title stuck in my mind and I mistakenly wrote in m...
I agree that there there are two distinct ways in which we understand the external world, and these may be described in various ways. 1) Metaphysics, ...
True, but that is not what was written. You are ignoring the qualifier "as much as" which is qualifying the clause that follows it - "Kant wanted to d...
Speaking as a co-respondent, the phrase used was not "Kant denied metaphysics", which may well be "catastrophically false". The phrase was "as much as...
I agree with what you have written. The question is why are geometry and reality very different For me, the reason is that relations are foundational ...
The Democratic President specifically asked for a woman rather than a man, and yet the nominee cannot explain the difference between a woman and a man...
Language is more metaphor than logic I have always been mystified that adding one-half plus one-quarter plus one-eighth plus one-sixteenth etc adds up...
I see where you are coming from. Language as metaphor Nietzsche wrote “We believe that when we speak of trees, colours, snows, and flowers, we have kn...
Aristotle Aristotle's answer would be that the universe is eternal having never come into existence. His is not the God of Genesis who created the wor...
Aristotle in Physics Book 8 claims that motion is everlasting, has no beginning and will have no end. And yet he discusses the "unmoved mover", where ...
Aristotle is arguing first that motion in the universe is everlasting and second that the motion we observe in the world must have its primary cause i...
I know certain things by acquaintance - a headache, an acrid smell, the colour red, a sweet taste, a screeching noise. I know other things by descript...
The phrase "Aristotle's argument is correct" is incorrect. A sound argument has a different meaning to a valid argument. There should be four question...
If a drop of rain falls downwards, the path of the raindrop is not random, in that the new position of the raindrop depends on its previous position. ...
Depends what one means by exist. We seem to agree that the Eiffel Tower does not exist in Platonic Form, in that it seems a strange idea that prior to...
Because there is no information in the Eiffel Tower that the Andromeda Galaxy exists, it does not follow that we have not been able to discover the ex...
It's even a better deal than that, in that for the low price of 60 pence, one can get from Tesco's 5 * 10 to the power of 29 elementary particles. Tho...
Agree, the mind is part of the world, having evolved in synergy with the world, possibly over a period of 800 million years. Agree, the nature of cons...
1) I agree that the elementary particles that make up what we call a table exist in the external world, and where each elementary particle is located ...
In any discussion of the mind the concept of dualism is unavoidable, as you say yourself: "We all know that the world has an effect on the mind and th...
Not unless there is truth in panprotopsychism. In that event, there would be a world with proto-consciousness and without ontological relations, and a...
A miracle may be defined as "an extraordinary and welcome event that is not explicable by natural or scientific laws and is therefore attributed to a ...
If Bradley is correct, and relations exist in the mind and not the external world, an observer of the apple and the tree will be aware of many relatio...
Yes, I should have written: "relations do exist, but in the mind, not in the external world". I agree that the mind is part of the world, having evolv...
When I, as an observer, look at the page, I agree that the symbol "i" physically exists on the page and the symbol "f" physically exists on the page t...
:smile: Very true, tables must exist if Amazon sells them. Forget the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, perhaps Amazon is where we will discover th...
I agree that "two particles in the same universe can interact with one another". But as you said "So the challenge is to prove that relations do exist...
I don't understand why there couldn't be a space that exists independently of any human observer within which there are particles that are, as you sai...
I agree with @Olivier5 that the question is "do relations exist objectively "out there", and not just as ideas in our minds" Using particle to also me...
A whole is a particular relation between its parts, in that a table is a particular relation between its atoms. If the whole is more than the sum of i...
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