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So, what difference does that qualification make?

I haven't seen any argument from you as to how it could be reasonable to doubt that I have hands, or why, just because someone (who, for the sake of t...

By "foundationalist arguments" are you referring to Moorean types of 'arguments' or something else? It would seem that we are left with "truths within...

When people live their lives as if they only see themselves from the points of view of others, and the expectations and demands they imagine, or maybe...

I think you're missing the point. I was pointing out that saying that any particular thing is contingent is not the same as saying that the fact that ...

"Proposition" is probably a bad choice of term in this connection. But what am I to think of you if refuse to acknowledge that you have hands, if you ...

The existence of any particular thing may be contingent; but this is not the same as to say that the existence of anything at all is contingent.

The problem is that if objects exist in God; then that is a mind-independent existence, and objects do exist when we are not perceiving them, just as ...

Previously you said this: There is no knowledge of the world apart from perception. How could there be? So, if perception, in the cumulative, rather t...

The fact that things are generally where we expect them to be is as reliable a means as you can get. What more reliable kind of means can you imagine ...

When it comes to intellectual discourse the rules of consistency (non-contradiction) and coherency must apply else discourse fails. Someone who says w...

So no normative constraints should apply to intellectual discourse; we can all just assert whatever we want? Sounds like a recipe for fun (if you like...

That's true, but the salient question, given that objects always seem to remain reliably where we last encountered or put them is whether, in light of...

Are you claiming though, for example, that the principles of aeronautical engineering are actually different in each aeronautical engineer's understan...

Affectivity arises with form. There is no formless matter, and with form comes affect; both quantitative and qualitative. This realization is inherent...

Of course considered merely logically it could always fail the next time. But could it really? Not if invariablility is really established in nature. ...

It's not that you don't have to, its that you can't, doubt everything at once, which makes it misleading to say that everything may be doubted. You sh...

The point is that in the process of doubting X other things must remain beyond doubt. You cannot doubt everything at once. You can only create artific...

Such "compelling grounds" are ruled out by your game of faux radical doubt. This is chimera-chasing that demands absolute certainty which can never be...

The coherence of all discourse is predicated on our ability to remember what we and others have said in the past and from moment to moment. This is pa...

For sure there is an obvious distinction between the identity of what is being understood and the difference between individual acts of understanding.

Thanks, will read.

If you go down that path all discourse becomes meaningless. How could we discusses anything, or make sense of anything, if we radically doubted the ve...

You seem to be missing the point. A determinable state is one which is restricted to some temporal duration. For example, say a prehistoric animal (a ...

LOL, what absurdities some metaphysical standpoints commit adherents to! :s

Yeah right! :-}

Still nothing about consciousness being fundamental.

I've alteady agreed that Peirce thinks matter is effete mind. So that quote tells me nothing new. Just what he means by that is the issue in question.

Did I say Peirce was a materialist? Apparently you see that as the only alternative which doesn't surprise me.

So, all the 'machinery' that we believe gives rise to perception, and that is never itself perceived during acts of perception, does not exist?

An indeterminable (note that in our exchange you changed this to "indeterminate" so let's stick to the original term for the sake of clarity) state is...

Do you have an argument for that?

Now you're contradicting yourself.

Outline your argument for the distinctions you claim he is making then. Of course my interpretation is biased; all interpretations, including yours, a...

Do you have an argument for why something determinate cannot proceed from something indeterminate?

Yes, but that goes back to my original point that I believe that Peirce is not referring to consciousness or perception as being fundamental, but to t...

If you're not prepared or able to say in your own words what you think Peirce means, and how you think that what you think he means entails that consc...

What, in your own words, is "the growth of tychism"? What is mind? What is matter? Explain you interpretation of Peirce.

"Plain English! LOL, it seems you are a lost cause, then. You should be posting on some New Age forums instead of here if you think sophisticated inte...

It seems that you are talking about individual instances of perception; where mistakes can be made, to be sure. I'm talking about perception in genera...

Continuing your example, say there is a determinable state A followed by a determinable state B, and we call the transition from the first to the seco...

Your assumption that I was unaware of Peirce's The Law of Mind is incorrect. I asked you to cite passages and provide arguments for your particular in...

From Schelling System of Transcendental Philosophy Introduction 3. 'Preliminary Division of Transcendental Philosophy': "Now it is certainly a product...

Oh well, I remain unconvinced that you have any idea what was on Peirce's mind. “The truth is that pragmaticism is closely allied to the Hegelian abso...

The problem is that apparently no coherent account of the reality of transcendent forms can be given; if an intelligible explanation had been propound...

It's not like the simplistic picture you are wanting to paint. Take a look at this SEP entry on this Schelling: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/sch...

I think the problem is really that they are unintelligible. Hegel's notion of spirit is not a transcendental notion, but a notion of immanence; for He...

What I should have said is that consciousness is evolved matter. Matter is effete mind, ineffective mind, consciousness is thus evolved effete mind, t...

The ostensive definitions of words just are what people in general take to be given in perception. What do you mean by "actually given in perception"?...