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The difference you're not seeing is that there is, for thought, post Kant, an ineliminable and inexpugnable indeterminable.

I can see a clear distinction between the two ideas of necessity and the two ideas of contingency as Spinoza formulates them. You deny this distinctio...

do you believe that nature would disappear if humans were wiped out? I can't see why it's not a perfectly valid distinction. Flying pigs if they were ...

I think you are equivocating on the terms 'necessary' and 'contingent'. As far as I remember Spinoza says tha God is a necessary being in both the sen...

Our theories tells us about how we think the world might be in itself. Any understanding of how the world could be in itself in accordance with our th...

You said this: And I said this: Now, as I understand it, there is no difference between "models we use for purposes of modelling and predicting the wo...

I don't either, and I'm not convinced Hegel does. It doesn't have a determined direction, it unfolds creatively...or uncreatively. When it comes to id...

Transcendence is immanently thought and can have, for us, only immanent significance. This much seems obvious. But it cannot be thought as immanence w...

Actually, I was just referring to this: Sounds to me that you are saying it doesn't matter what we do, and therefore we are just killing time until we...

Damn straight!!! Metaphoorically speeaakiiing ;)

That sounds like a real good experience! I agree with you the tree is an idea. I've also thought this in relation to what is often referred to as the ...

Only true geniuses can get things spectacularly wrong in ways that really matter. In any case, looked at dialectically he was not so much wrong, as th...

I think Descartes focused philosophical consideration of the mind/matter, subject/object (and by implication the rationalism/empiricism) dichotomies a...

I read the commentary that linked, and found it very interesting, especially the contention that Heidegger rejected the idea that Aristotle entertaine...

I have it, have had it for years, found it for cheap in a secondhand book shop, have not gotten around to reading it. I have come across references to...

I agree. It's altogether too fashionable these days to indulge in Descartes-bashing. At least TGW, even though I think he is totally misguided in equa...

I have no idea what you are talking about here, Willow. If you want to discuss the pros and cons of Kant's philosophy then you have to stay true to cr...

Willow, answer honestly now; have you actually studied Kant's works or even secondary texts dealing with them?

I would say you are simply wrong if you think Kant thinks the idea of causality applies beyond the empirical world. He specifically denies that it can...

Actually one cannot fail to find the world at all; to find anything at all is to find the world, or at least can be defined as such; at least in our c...

Yeah, it's just physical work. I often listen to lectures on various philosophical and religious topics when I'm doing repetitive physical work, trimm...

Sure, if it's not too much trouble, I am curious as to what you are referring to.

Actually I wouldn't mock you for having little interest in Chomsky; I have little interest in him myself. Although I did listen to a podcast featuring...

That's the paranoid interpretation.

What Hegel actually meant about "the end of history" is by no means uncontroversial. I don't believe he was stupid enough to think that no one would p...

For Berkeley transcendental ideality consists in the mind of God. Kant believed this could not be demonstrated by pure reason, but should be understoo...

It's interesting to note that, under that interpretation, reason can be seen as either a larger ocean or a smaller pond. When the whole tradition is s...

Berkeley's idealism is utterly incoherent without God. Kant differentiated his philosophy from Berkeley's by attempting to show that God cannot be rat...

Yes, that's one possible interpretation.

If we are not knowing nature-as-it-is through the Laws and they are merely predictive models that tell only about how nature appears to us, then our u...

LOL, yes I agree they certainly don't deserve the money; I think the financial markets are a joke; particularly since governments have allowed investm...

A polysemous rejoinder I will leave you to ponder...or not..I don't want to take the fun out of it. ;)

Buildings are constructed to house the offices and equipment of the financial speculators, and computers and phones for their use and vehicles to take...

Best to stick to the little pond!

So, what's your answer? Is the self irreducible, or reducible in the some naturalistic way? Or...?

Heidegger wrote a four volume treatise on Nietzsche. https://www.amazon.com/Nietzsche-Vols-Knowledge-Metaphysics-Nihilism/dp/0060637943/ref=pd_bxgy_14...

Does it matter? Isn't it better to allow discussion to develop relatively unconstrained (as long as it remains interesting)? In any case I would have ...

Do the laws of physics extend beyond the epistemic realm; beyond, that is, what is known? I made no assertion about whether the laws of physics are de...

I think you got that backwards. Laplace's demon? Not so, whichever way you want to read it. In any case, how has that anything to do with whether dete...

Fair enough; I know where you are coming from. The problem is that real estate as investment rather than as a 'basic good' available to everyone witho...

Your reply has nothing at all to do with the question.The question has nothing to do with anything anyone might find panic-worthy, either, as far as I...

I agree with your points that one would need to become an entrepeneur. But that is an easy enough progression (at least in Australia) given a certain ...

Is there any determination at all anywhere outside the epistemic realm?

Yes, as a landscape consultant/ designer/ contractor/ builder I certainly have benefited form the desires wealthy people have to improve their living ...

True that.

Thanks for linking that lecture. Bitbol is very good and draws many seemingly disparate elements together.

From the fact that the decision is irrational it does not follow that it is random. The ass must choose, and who knows why she chooses one over the ot...

Yes, my thought was that the expenditure would be easy to underestimate due to its astronomical size.

An Australian.

I am familiar with Adam Smith's notion of "trickle down" in relation to prosperity. You seem to be talking about technology, but I suppose you believe...