Janus

The salient point I think you are missing is that argumentation is not about truth, but about consistency. Argumentation seeks to draw out the entailm...

First tell me exactly what you mean by "God". For example, the God of the Torah, of the Gospels, of the mystics, Spinoza's God? Or something else? The...

I don't think invariance can be counted as a priori. We believe that nature is invariant because we have no reliable experiences at all of it not bein...

I don't mean to be pedantic or picky, but I'm not sure what 'contiguity' is supposed to mean in this context. Do you mean 'connection between', 'conti...

I have already acknowledged that deductive logic is not the basis. The basis is inductive logic. They are not the same. Induction is based on past exp...

'All the evidence from past experience and the human understanding of geology and geography suggests that there will always be something beyond the ho...

OK, I think I get what you are driving at now. Just because we have found in the past that there are further hills and valleys beyond the hills and va...

The misunderstanding and the "cherrypicking" is pretty obviously yours, as I see it. Firstly. Spinoza would say that both the existence and the essenc...

My apologies then, I misunderstood it as representing your own interpretation. In any case, reading what has been said about Kant's ideas in this thre...

This is not Kant's idea at all. The transcendental ego is not understood by Kant to be an "isolated self". That is sheer nonsense.

Everything you say here presents nothing more than the assertions of TWOD, it does not represent the philosophy of Spinoza. Ethics Part I PROPOSITION ...

I was trying to read your post and I only got a few words into it when it suddenly disappeared. ;)

There's no point wasting any further time then.

Can you give an example of any concept "without one or more of those categories"? Spinoza, for example proposed that time and space arise form substan...

I think the idea is that rational percipients are the measure, because it is only via rational percipients that the universe appears and becomes known...

I think the plausible mundane possibility that is being missed here is that the Aborigines had seen ships before the Endeavour.

I'm not sure if you are suggesting that the situation is the same with the intimation of unseen landscape in the Mona Lisa as is it when looking at an...

Your methodology of argumentation consists in distorting what your interlocutor has said, and then writing reams of objections based on this distortio...

I don't understand why the world of human perception and thought should be thought of as a trap. It seems to me it can better be thought about as part...

I am not sceptical of intellectual context, or cultural context. I reject the idea that cultural context is a bar to the ability to understanding Kant...

Sounds about right! Is there anything about your tail that you are unable to see that you have reason to believe would be there nonetheless if you cou...

There is a lot of apparent ambiguity in Kant. Whether that is due to the difficulty of the issues he is trying to address, or to his limitations as a ...

I don't think it is like Berkeley's idealism. Perhaps you could explain why you do. I think materialism is wrong because materiality is applicable onl...

I agree; the idea that they simply could not see the Endeavour is ridiculous. Imagine, for example if a the driver of a road train left the road and d...

The stick appears bent, and we understand why it appears bent. Appearances can be deceptive, but when they are there is almost always, perhaps even al...

None of your irrelevant objections carry any force at all for me. If you have a wife now you know you have a wife, and you know she is female ( if she...

I would say the discrepancy is not between appearance and reality but between imagination and reality. The imagination can confabulate all kinds of th...

I think we have very good reason to believe that our thinking the world is a real process, an expression of the world, like anything else, like for ex...

That's not knowledge at all, it's merely a tautology.

But would it also be abstracted from space. time, mass, shape, number, relation and so on? If it were to be abstracted from all categories of judgemen...

This is simply an impossible question to answer because any answer we give will be a reflection of our own conceptualizations. The best we can do is t...

If the infinite is perfectly knowable then it is all on its own, since nothing else is. If you think the infinite is perfectly knowable, then tell me ...

I always found the idea that God's view is from nowhere problematic. God's view, if God has a view at all, would be from everywhere, not from nowhere....

What you are saying amounts, in Spinozistic terms, to saying that there can be no substance, but only modes. If you think that your are not a realist ...

This is simply wrong. Of course the infinite must be known, insofar as it can be known, from a viewpoint. I already said there is no viewpointless kno...

Some concepts do seem to be fundamental; space, time, causality, materiality, form, function, quantity, quality, relation, modality. I just thought of...

Yes, and the question is what non-human scale of values could it possibly be related to, in any case?

Novices are generally not good at any activity; so this wouldn't seem to support the idea that practiced philosophers are bad at philosophy. In fact i...

Kant said: "Thoughts without intuitions are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind." I take this to mean that intuitions ('Intuitions' for Kant ...

I think 'impulsion' would actually be a better word that 'impulse' here. Objects experience a force that impels them to move. We know this experientia...

Yeah, well I happen to believe that philosophy is more an art than a science; although it obviously has elements of the latter.

So, you believe that we can and do understand the world in ways that are completely free from any conceptualization whatsoever? And why would you expe...

Philosophy is not exactly a collective correction and accumulation of a body of knowledge and belief like science; it consists more in an individual i...

You are failing to make a proper distinction between knowledge and belief. The certainty of knowledge consists in the absence of genuine doubt. Do you...

That makes sense to me; and I agree with the point about Kant. The upshot then would seem to be that there is nothing but reality as interpreted; whic...

I should read that again. It's been a very long time.

How so? I'd rather read what Banno has to say than "see Davidson".

So, what is the field a "subset or manifestation" of ? And you still haven't explained how the purported field might be tested for. Do you perhaps thi...

The discussion had turned towards, for example, the laws of nature understood as habits that formed due to morphic resonance. That was what I was addr...

Here I disagree again. Your (current) viewpoint is what you (currently) conceive, and the reach of your viewpoint is what can be conceived within it. ...