Does the following make sense: In possible world 5 - a chess set = {64 squares, made of stone} In possible world 6 - a chess set = {64 squares, made o...
What does Kant in the CPR mean by noumena, transcendental object and thing in itself? The problem of exegesis An exegesis of Kant’s CPR is problematic...
I agree. Another example. I cannot see the colour red when I close my eyes, but have the ability to see the colour red when there is something red pre...
You may be right, my wording may not have been the best. The concept of the transcendental is important to the CPR, and is important to Kant’s princip...
What does Kant mean by “a priori”? Reason must have content, As Kant said "thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind”....
Do you have access to a clean copy of the article. From the Internet Archive, the “full text” comes out as: I agree when the paper writes “In view of ...
Many people believe that “knowledge results from biological and neurological Darwinian evolution”, as do I. In this context, the term “a priori” has a...
Today it makes sense to talk about innate knowledge in the brain built up through 3.5 to 4 billion years of evolution. However, Kant in the 18th C did...
Kant's Critique of Pure Reason discusses a priori pure intuitions of time and space and a priori pure concepts of the Categories. This is knowledge, b...
A statement has been verified if the statement is discovered to be true. It has been asked “what is metaphysics?”. One characteristic of metaphysical ...
What is metaphysics? One aspect is that metaphysics is not verifiable, as metaphysics is undertaken using language, and truth cannot be discovered wit...
Metaphysics is not physics. For example, the speed of light is a fundamental constant in nature, and is known to be 299 792 458 m / s. Physics knows t...
What is metaphysics? Metaphysics asks those questions we don’t need to know the answer to, but which we are curious to know the answer to. All WH ques...
Daniel Dennett is a Compatibilist, where free will can coexist with determinism. A cue hits a snooker ball. The subsequent movement of the snooker bal...
We either have free will or we don’t. If we have free will, then we cannot reason not to have free will. If we don’t have free will, then we cannot re...
Do we really have free will? Unfortunately, a question that can never be answered. Suppose someone makes the decision to turn left rather than turn ri...
A thought is a mental event, such as the thought of an apple. But in your statement, can equally replace "content" by "form". It still needs to be sho...
Not necessarily. Unless each mental event "is" its content. The content "is" the form. The Universe is built on fundamental particles which have no pa...
In scientific terms: Suppose a boulder has a mass of 100kg. When the boulder interacts with Earth's gravity, there is a force of 981 N pulling it towa...
The apple appears red, because when hit by sunlight, the apple absorbs all colours except red, which is then reflected to our eyes. A mirror reflects ...
At the stage of making my point absolutely clear that for at least 400 years Western philosophy has not been built on a substance paradigm to the excl...
Since the 17th C, with Indirect Realism, I don't think that philosophy has been built on the substance rather than process paradigm. Our language cert...
I agree, in that I have the concept of Poland even though I have only visited four of its towns. My concept of Poland is necessarily bounded by my per...
An object in the world such as a rock has an almost infinite number of possible relations. As you say "properties infinitely vary in processes". For e...
That's how I see it. We are physiologically predisposed to see a family resemblance in the wavelengths from 625 to 750nm. We are then culturally condi...
Let the property of redness = {postbox, Northern Cardinal, sunset} Suppose we are told to find another object, object X, that has the same property of...
Yes, for the OP: Property redness = {postbox, Northern Cardinal, sunset} Nelson Goodman proposed that "red" doesn't name a universal redness, but just...
My solution is that it is a feature of the brain that a person can discover family resemblances in different things. For example, a postbox and Northe...
"Being an instance of redness" is not a property. "Being an instance of redness" is referring to a particular instance, which is a single concrete thi...
We learn the concept of an abstract property, such as redness, by discovering a family resemblance between a set of concrete objects in the world, suc...
Thing A is predisposed to emit a wavelength of 550nm, and an observer perceives colour X. Thing B is predisposed to emit a wavelength of 630nm, and th...
Within general relativity, Einstein's Equivalence Principle shows that being at rest in a gravitational field is equivalent to being accelerated. (Wik...
One possible solution to the problem of circularity. Suppose the property of redness = {red car, red building, red book}. We understand the property o...
I did not say that in general relativity gravity is a force. I wrote: "According to general relativity, an apple on a table is subject to a force and ...
A football team is a set of football players. An example of a set that does not contain itself. Football team = {player 1, player 2, player 3,...........
My belief is also that the existence of the mind depends on the existence of the brain, and the nature of this dependency is still in doubt, as you sa...
As an Indirect Realist, I agree with your inferring. I can infer a cause for my sensations, indirect rather than direct knowledge. I see a broken wind...
According to general relativity, an apple on a table is subject to a force and because subject to a force is therefore accelerating, actively accelera...
Consider the singleton set containing one element, such as Socrates = {Socrates}. From Zermelo-Fraenkei set theory, no set can be an element of itself...
I am just wondering: Suppose only three things in the world have the property of redness. Consider the set {red car, red apple, red book} It seems tha...
This seems a similar concept to using set theory to define the natural numbers. Frege and Russell proposed defining a natural number n as the collecti...
You are assuming that instants of time, static states of existence, are metaphysically possible. Henri Bergson is one philosopher who argued that time...
Even though the verb "is" expresses a state of existence, the phrase "is on" suggests a temporary situation, as in the apple is on the table, the appl...
Yes, to express a complete idea, a sentence needs both a verb (an activity) and generally a noun (object). There is no complete idea in "apple", but t...
This is from the viewpoint of a Direct Realist, who looks at both the map and directly at the actual world and compares the two. But for the Indirect ...
Where is this reality? There are appearances in our five senses, such as seeing a circular shape. We have experiences through these five senses, such ...
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