Note though, that the term "external world" does not (necessarily) refer to a world beyond human experience, but to an inter-subjectively shared world...
The very idea of failure of language per se seems incoherent to me. The point for me is that certain ideas may lead "naturally" to unreflective reific...
I'd say it fails us insofar as it unreflectively leads to naive realism, which is an unwarranted standpoint, or at least a distorted, because incomple...
I didn't say they think they are describing the "world of sensations", whatever that might even mean, but the world of things (which are revealed by s...
It's true there are several versions of scientific realism, but I doubt that many scientists would deny that they are dealing with the world as percei...
Of course things as experienced must "conform to thoughts", but Kant would not say that things in themselves must conform to thoughts; in facts he is ...
Firstly the statement I quoted and criticized was pretty straightforward: You are saying that Kant questions the idea that the world exists independen...
Kant posits the "in itself" which just is the world existing "completely independently of our perception of it". Your own words "perception of it" sho...
Both noumena and things in themselves insofar as they are both considered as being thoughts are obviously "appearance relative". But in terms of what ...
I probably didn't explain it that simply after all. The way I understand it is that 'noumenon' is an idea of a limit beyond which sensory experience c...
Putting it very simply and in a way that Kant may not have specifically explained it: a noumenon is the idea of an idea; the concept of something beyo...
:up: Although it is also true that the meteoric evolution of consumer economics has greatly undermined the traditional familial, communal and religiou...
It's true that people most often use the term " a being" as an abbreviated form of "a living being" or "a human being", but this is just an idiomatic ...
Living creatures are defined as living beings. Minerals or artifacts are inanimate non-living beings and plants are usually taken to be living, but no...
I think the common way of putting it would be that some beings are capable of perceiving and some are not. Is there any good philosophical reason to d...
Yes, it is puzzling! For me God (or any other purported being) either exists or does not exist (regardless of our beliefs). And the term "to exist" is...
I don't know how to answer this. I try to avoid imputing particular psychological motivations to what people say on forums like this. I presume good f...
Well, I was using your terminology. So for you it is not Berkeley's "To be is to be perceived", but rather 'To be is to perceive'? That would be a ver...
Scientific theories cannot be "disproven" or proven. According to Popper's (still controversial) idea scientific theories can be falsified when the pr...
The validity of the response seems to be going over your head. If you want to say that collaboration is not an essential characteristic of (functional...
So you think the other animals, the plants and the Earth don't matter in their own right? The monstrous irony is that it is precisely that almost univ...
Yes, if there is to be continuing production then there must be continuing consumption to keep the machine going. If all the production is mechanized,...
https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/health-environment/article/2162999/consider-alternatives-pangolin-scales-traditional If a statement is to be true,...
It's only definitional and contextual; we never know truth or have any knowledge in any absolute sense. Actually, I prefer to think of "knowing that" ...
How do you decide whether a belief is justified? Can a belief be justified and yet untrue? Does 'justified' mean, to you, merely something like unders...
Note the difference between "he believes a broken clock is working" and " He believes the following: "A broken clock is working"". Of course the latte...
I think you are missing the fact that if the clock has stopped working then the belief, although true, is not justified. You might want to say that he...
No, I'm not saying that at all. I'm saying that mental grasping, which is enabled by symbolic abstraction, is understood in a way analogous to physica...
Symbolic, as distinct from merely signaling, language is a form of mental grasping. The opposable thumb (physical grasping) and symbolic language toge...
No, I should assume neither until I have good evidence to do so. You are fallaciously mounting a kind of "argument from authority" here. Yes, but you ...
Yes, there is also the knowing of acquaintance, as in "I know this person". And there is what I call 'knowing with' which consists in the investigatio...
Of course it's your assertion I just don't agree with you that reason itself universally "asserts" anything. Even the principles of reason are asserte...
It makes no sense to say that reason makes assertions; reason is the basis upon which reasonable assertions are made by persons (or minds, if you want...
If is true, then what happened to your "commonality of human reason"? Fact is, I've read a few of your threads and I can recall no exchanges where you...
Your typical response to almost everyone. What exquisite irony! You are either lying to yourself or you know that you are not at all interested in rea...
Ironic coming from someone who substantiates none of his own insubstantial claims, but merely continues to insist that they are somehow true. It's als...
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