:lol: Which one are you? I'm not sure what you are saying, and I can't think of an example of what I think you might be saying. Can you give an exampl...
Right we make "secure" (or not so secure) inferences. But they are not determinations of truth. For example, I get accused of scientism, and yet I don...
How do we determine the conditions that make either possible if not by observation and logic? We can reflect on our experience, that is we can do phen...
It looks to me like you are out of answers. You claim that there are ways, other than by observation or logic, to determine truth, but when pressed by...
All my statements are expressions of my perspective?so what, that's trivially true. Of course I'm aware of it. I also acknowledge that my perspective ...
What do you mean by "meaningful outside the bounds of cognition"? Let's say for the sake of argument nothing for human discourse is outside the bounds...
So, you're saying that something might exist apart from cognition, but that it makes no sense to say that? In any case the concept of existence outsid...
Your argument is something like: We derived our idea of existence from our cognitive experience, therefore nothing can exist apart from its being cogn...
The truth concerning what is neither empirically nor logically demonstrable is not strictly decidable and so is a matter of what each of us finds most...
That's one way of describing the situation. On the other hand I can say I perceive the space between objects, albeit usually more or less filled up wi...
I was editing as you were responding apparently. Anyway I'm sayin that we can sensibly say that the things we perceive have their own existence indepe...
The limits of human cognition does not define or determine the limits of what exists. You can talk about the situation that way, but there are of cour...
Phenomenology intentionally brackets the question of the existence of an external world, and concerns itself with understanding the nature of human ex...
What is the difference between noumena and things in themselves according to you? A bare assertion is not sufficient. Why does it make no sense to tal...
You said the discursive intellect might be a better approach. I presumed you meant the discursive intellect alone. But does it ever work alone? Can it...
Yes, I was referring specifically to scientific and physical explanation. If course we have explanations of behavior couched in terms of reasons, and ...
No that assumption is not necessarily entailed by what I said. I said the thing that calls for explanation is the undeniable fact that we see the same...
This is a gross, unargued bare assertion. Do an internet search on 'two worlds theory vs two aspects theory in Kant scholarship'. You might learn some...
The natural sciences don't so much bracket the subject as it is the case that the subject is not within their purview. Science is not a human being so...
Yes, but it doesn't follow that they cannot make sense pertaining to things which are inferred to exist outside of experience. If the world doesn't ce...
I think I know what are getting at. But if you insist that the category of existence can only pertain to the things we perceive then we can say that t...
I guess I just don't accept the validity of what you are claiming as the context within which you make such statements. I've said before that I don't ...
That's not true. Consciousness is not trying to explain itself?it is reason, the discursive intellect, that is trying to explain consciousness. Are no...
Potential is a different thing to the noumenal, which is what we have been discussing. If something has a potential it is built into the actuality of ...
If you read what Russell linked earlier: https://profmattstrassler.com/articles-and-posts/particle-physics-basics/mass-energy-matter-etc/matter-and-en...
You are assuming this world is an illusion. How could you know that when everything you could possibly know comes form your experience in this world? ...
I have no idea what self-subsistent being would be like. I also cannot see how anything in our investigations of nature could inform us about what sel...
Unfortunately that is not a sensible, or even meaningful, thing to say?better just to remain silent. If philosophy is about anything it is certainly n...
I think the pronoun 'he' reflects a longstanding understanding of God as 'father', while nature is referred to as 'mother'. I tend to think that the i...
Cheers, I found Matt Strassler's article about matter and energy very interesting, as it casts doubt on the assumption that matter is energy. Perhaps ...
The problem is that we have every reason to think there is a world prioir to perception, and because it seems impossible to imagine how a perception o...
:up: Question for @"Bob Ross": if god is being itself, and there is no real separation (as opposed to conceptual distinction) between being and beings...
If matter just is energy then, then photons are material. Are electrons, protons and neutrons material in your opinion? That would be an invalid infer...
As far as I know mathematics exists only in the spatiotemporal world. There can be no order without things to be ordered. It seems reasonable to think...
:up: I agree with what you say there and you've covered the issue more throughly than I had, so I have nothing further to add at this point. Do we kno...
That's true, it is to reject the move Kant's philosophy makes, and I do that because I don't see a cogent argument for the empirical/transcendental di...
I disagree. If Kant is saying that space and time or differentiation could not exist in the in itself then he is making a positive statement about it....
How can anything be deduced about the in itself from "the nature of experience and reason"? I cannot see how anything could come from such a phenomeno...
I understand that is what Kant and Schopenhauer contend, but the salient question is as to whether they are also more than that. Kant says space and t...
I don't think anyone would deny that numbers are different kinds of things than squirrels, that attributes and relations are different kinds of things...
It's all about context, which is something you apparently don't understand, or choose to ignore when it suits you tactically. I believe you know perfe...
I never said I don't care about the truth. I said the answer to the question about the nature of the in itself is not particularly important to me. I'...
I notice you don't try to address any of the more telling points, and even when you do as here you always seem to cherry-pick, and leave off part of w...
As I read it the first underlined sentence in your response says essentially the same thing as the quoted sentence from me above it. Perhaps you could...
A relation is an object of thought. I think it can rightly be said that spatial relations are concrete (as opposed to purely conceptual). The distance...
Ha, yes it also seems to be related to the substance dualist/ aspect dualist polemic, but I think it's really quite different. Wasn't it Hegel who fir...
I see no difference between the two terms. Anyway either way I'm not offended, so no need for apology. I found your saying that rather amusing. I can ...
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