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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...
December 11, 2025 at 15:57
An actual possibility, but hopefully not.
December 05, 2025 at 11:57
I admire your confidence in being willing to tackle 60 intricate SEP pages about a generally controversial and deeply complex topic.
December 05, 2025 at 11:46
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...
December 01, 2025 at 15:53
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...
November 30, 2025 at 12:49
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...
November 30, 2025 at 10:36
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November 29, 2025 at 16:53
What does Kant mean by “a priori”? Reason must have content, As Kant said "thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind”....
November 29, 2025 at 14:01
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 ...
November 29, 2025 at 09:48
Many people believe that “knowledge results from biological and neurological Darwinian evolution”, as do I. In this context, the term “a priori” has a...
November 28, 2025 at 08:44
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...
November 27, 2025 at 12:31
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...
November 26, 2025 at 16:30
A statement has been verified if the statement is discovered to be true. It has been asked “what is metaphysics?”. One characteristic of metaphysical ...
November 26, 2025 at 15:16
What is metaphysics? One aspect is that metaphysics is not verifiable, as metaphysics is undertaken using language, and truth cannot be discovered wit...
November 25, 2025 at 14:48
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...
November 23, 2025 at 11:45
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...
November 22, 2025 at 13:57
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...
November 15, 2025 at 10:56
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...
November 14, 2025 at 14:00
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...
November 13, 2025 at 17:30
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...
September 07, 2025 at 16:32
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...
September 07, 2025 at 14:36
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...
September 03, 2025 at 15:49
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 ...
September 03, 2025 at 13:56
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...
September 03, 2025 at 12:15
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...
September 03, 2025 at 08:13
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...
August 31, 2025 at 13:15
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...
August 31, 2025 at 08:16
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...
August 30, 2025 at 15:51
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...
August 30, 2025 at 15:34
Yes, for the OP: Property redness = {postbox, Northern Cardinal, sunset} Nelson Goodman proposed that "red" doesn't name a universal redness, but just...
August 30, 2025 at 14:22
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...
August 30, 2025 at 12:40
"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...
August 30, 2025 at 08:48
Also: Extensional definition of Ship = {ferry, tankers, icebreakers} Intensional definition of Ship = {large boat, travels on water} =================...
August 29, 2025 at 16:06
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...
August 29, 2025 at 14:06
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...
August 29, 2025 at 12:08
Within general relativity, Einstein's Equivalence Principle shows that being at rest in a gravitational field is equivalent to being accelerated. (Wik...
August 28, 2025 at 12:30
One possible solution to the problem of circularity. Suppose the property of redness = {red car, red building, red book}. We understand the property o...
August 28, 2025 at 11:26
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 ...
August 28, 2025 at 07:46
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,...........
August 27, 2025 at 16:19
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...
August 27, 2025 at 14:08
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...
August 27, 2025 at 09:18
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...
August 27, 2025 at 08:46
Consider the singleton set containing one element, such as Socrates = {Socrates}. From Zermelo-Fraenkei set theory, no set can be an element of itself...
August 27, 2025 at 08:31
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...
August 26, 2025 at 15:37
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...
August 26, 2025 at 13:40
You are assuming that instants of time, static states of existence, are metaphysically possible. Henri Bergson is one philosopher who argued that time...
August 26, 2025 at 12:09
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...
August 26, 2025 at 08:11
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...
August 25, 2025 at 16:33
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 ...
August 25, 2025 at 16:13
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 ...
August 25, 2025 at 12:18