Janus

What it means to be an object can be thought in at least two ways. First it can be thought as a sheer definition, which would be a common sense descri...

What a sadly impoverished worldview!

Common sense knowledge deals with descriptions; science moves to the next level; the level of explanation.

You're looking at it the wrong way. Between cogitans and extensa there is a parallelism; it is incoherent to talk of causation between the two because...

Who said consciousness is non-physical? Think of Spinoza's cogitans and extensa being one thing understood two ways.

If there is a "passive-aggressive" tone then it is due to feelings of frustration at your lack of engagement. It didn't start out that way. Even if th...

This is untrue. You simply fail to address most of my criticisms of your claims, criticisms which are similar in kind to criticisms made by others; wh...

This perpetuation is an example of the disingenuousness I referred to earlier, but I predict Wayfarer will remain in denial about this, refuse to addr...

Consciousness enables animals to perform unpredictable acts, and to an even greater degree, it enables humans, to perform not only unpredictable acts,...

Consciousness mediates data by adding the ability to act on account of believing in different ways. This is what differentiates animals from machines....

"You must whip it..... ........Whip it good......"

Can you explain why you think objects cannot be recognized by process metaphysics?

Actually, that raises an interesting point, because there is a sense in which I don't think Kant can be said to have a metaphysics, but that his philo...

Right, and I think you do know, or should know, on account of it having been pointed out to you so often; that you are attacking a strawdog version of...

Some scientists may oppose and others may not. But your simplistic claim does not surprise me, since you have proven yourself to be the master purveyo...

I think the analogy between an an economy and a species is workable, at least to a degree. On a genetic level, though, species are hermetic; whereas a...

Hey, no sweat, man. :smile: I agree that it is possible to be mistaken about details even after long study. Look at the disagreements among Kant schol...

Modern science does not "rule out" such things; it simply does not concern itself with them on account of the fact that the whole methodology of scien...

Kant denied that there is intellectual intuition in the very sense that Spinoza (probably following Descartes) claimed is the highest form of intellec...

And this is puzzling because you should know from previous conversations that, from your own admission, I have studied Kant, and German Idealism in ge...

OK, but when you previously answered 'no' to this it seemed as though you wanted to deny that sensation, for Kant, is formless.

The passage seems to be attempting to distinguish between the sensation and the form; which would be to say the sense impression is without form; form...

They might ask what the alternative term for philosophers would then be. Unnatural Philosophers? Supernatural Philosophers? Subnatural Philosophers?

LOL, reminds me of Peirce's 'pragmaticists'; although to be accurate that would be 'scienticists'. The simple solution would be the one I proposed fir...

Scientistic claims are more comprehensive than those made by mere positivism. So all scientists (in my preferred sense of the word) are positivists, b...

I have proposed before in relation to this terminological problem that those we now call 'scientists' should be called sciencers, and the term 'scient...

I didn't say Hamlet is real, though; under the scheme I proposed Hamlet exists, but is imaginary; that is, not real. Hamlet exists because he satisfie...

So, there are formless sense impressions?

The characters in a novel stand apart from one another, so under your definition they exist. Same goes for numbers. So, we can say that anything that ...

Both terms have their own ranges of meaning in various contexts in English and more or less exact equivalents in other languages. Those ranges of mean...

What exactly do you mean "events that take the inductive form" and which description are you referring to? I would say that all accounts of human acti...

Perhaps; but my point was that he who "feels himself in danger of missing out on this Higher Life of true happiness" is not the one who "loses his lif...

And right there lives the greatest of ironies.

An extremely unfortunate obsession with self indeed! As to the OP; religion can be as much, and more rightly I think, concerned with suffering in this...

Cool, it's a very interesting thought experiment. From any possible viewpoint it would still be larger (and more enduring and endurant) than an apple,...

Led by repeated observations of objects invariably falling to Earth and the rising of Sun, moon and planets, to believe that such events will always h...

Yes, I think that's right. Science does not give us truth but speculative understanding. Truth (in the propositional sense, at least) is a rather pede...

Ha ha, looks like I was just being pedantic then, wanting to say that the height of the Rock would normally be thought of as its height from the surro...

I'm not a very sophisticated math person, but my understanding is that they evolved as investigations of what would obtain if you curved the usual two...

For me it fits because there seem to be basically three modes of being led in thought. The etymology for 'deduce' is "lead down, derive" (in Medieval ...

Actually, f you measure it in situ you will get about 348 m. I couldn't believe it was 863 m high, so I looked it up. 863 m is its height above sea le...

I don't have enough time to read that article now. In any case I have been reading Peirce on and off for many years now, and am pretty familiar with h...

In my way of thinking there is perception, (animals also perceive) and then there is understanding; which includes various kinds of understandings: co...

Of course it did. The imaginative hypothesis that the two patterns are related by an unseen structuring principle or force (law or force of gravity) i...

I think it's more than that. It is seeing the patterns and inferring their relations to other patterns in terms of universally active laws (laws which...

I just can't see how being mind-dependent in the sense you are pointing to, the sense that the Pythagorean Theorem must be formulated and understood i...

That's right; we see the patterns and make the abductive/ inductive inferences to laws and forces that explain the patterns. 'Abduction' and 'inductio...

You completely miscomprehended what I wrote. I said the point that the Pythagorean principle can only be grasped by a rational intelligence is obvious...

That's just what induction is though; the assumption that things will be as they have been observed to be, and the underlying assumption is that there...

Even if "fear of religion" is widespread in modern culture; that still leaves the question as to why people might be afraid of religion. I can imagine...