If it were true that my existence depends on my asserting it, then it seems to follow that, since I can assert it any time or even, in principle, cons...
I have already said that the logic of addition is unlimited iteration; in principle we can keep adding forever. The logic of quaddition like rules div...
I'm not defending the use of anything, all I've been saying is that addition seems to me to be a natural development of cognition-based counting, and ...
OK, I'm afraid I don't get it, but I might if you were to explain the connection clearly in your own words. If you cannot, or are not willing to, do t...
Right, well isn't that what we've been doing? I don't deny that the kinds of philosophical practices such as the stoics, the epicureans, and the neo-P...
Your comment might be useful if it was augmented by some explanation as to how this discussion relates to the private language argument. Sure, we can ...
I don't think it really does matter in any practical sense, since such insight cannot be definitive. However, the insight might be conceptually creati...
It does surprise me that you don't recall me framing it that way before, because I am sure I have more than a few times. But anyway, no matter; and I ...
So, if I add two numbers and the sum is more than 57, I am not doing quaddition, but ordinary addition. And as I said before if I am working out how m...
I haven't said or suggested that imagination and observation can be disentangled. That said imagining abstruse metaphysical possibilities and observin...
Of course, I am happy to admit that, since I don't think anything is definitive except observation, and that only within the context of observation. I...
I see this somewhat differently than you do, as follows. The idea of the mind is a part of the taken-for-granted reality. We don't really know what co...
:up: I think the human imagination is a domain for fruitful exploration, but not for definitive knowledge of anything other than just what is imaginab...
As you should know I agree that whatever is real beyond human experience and understanding cannot be imagined. Nonetheless, we cannot but imagine that...
Not very useful to who? The fact that logic is not about content, but about form stands whether you think it is useful or not. How about you present a...
This can easily be misconstrued to be claiming that mind is in some absolute sense ontologically fundamental, rather than it being taken to be simply ...
No worries, mate. I think Kant said that human beings, due to the nature of reason, will inevitably try to answer these "ultimate" questions that form...
It seems obvious that metaphysics is not a legitimate source of empirical knowledge. On the other hand, would you not agree that it gives us knowledge...
Logics determine the forms that contents must take. The point of the comment was to remind you that logic, as such, tells us nothing about the world. ...
I don't see human behavior as being relevant to the logic of counting or addition except insofar as it follows it. It's true that for finite addition ...
I agree. It seems obvious to me that number is in the world, as least in the world as it appears to humans. It is hard to imagine any world without mo...
Thanks that's an interesting passage, and I find nothing to disagree with in it. I was thinking more of actual objects than of points and lines or spa...
That's a good question. I think there is a sense in which physics is just one way that things appear to us, and also a sense in which it is taken to b...
Yes, there is no coherent answer to the question about how things are independently of human experience, although it is possible to imagine that thing...
Seeing the same things and conceiving of them in different ways are two different things altogether. I haven't denied that we might come, and historic...
I should have said "by real thing I mean....", That's what these interminable arguments are really about, motivated by—wanting to know how things are ...
No, psilocybin. :hearts: By "real" I mean how could we know whether some conceptual schema or other corresponds to what is independent of human experi...
I don't disagree with the private language argument, at least as I interpret it, which is to say that if you tried to construct a private language, yo...
Dogmatism has nothing to do with it; there is simply no reason that addition should terminate anywhere. This is nonsense: I haven't claimed that one c...
No, I don't think so. Science observes, and then attempts to explain what is observed. I see fire, for example, and I explain it in terms of phlogisto...
Are we to imagine perceiving the scene form no point of view (an obviously incoherent request) or from "every possible point within it, and also aroun...
An interesting article. Animal calls can be concrete signs, but that is not the same as the abstract signification of a symbol. Mathematics, an abstra...
The natural logic of addition includes infinitely many iterations simply because in principle there is no reason why you cannot just keep adding. Anyt...
The contents themselves are not the stuff of logic. but are merely set out in accordance with its strictures. And again, regarding my saying that all ...
I was right into Whitehead for a good while. I think process metaphysics is closer to actuality as experienced than substance ontology is. I like spec...
A correlationist will say that we cannot imagine how objects exist "in themselves". We can imagine that they do exist in themselves, which is somethin...
The existence of computers based on logical operations says nothing about content. Various logics are formalizations of the rules that are understood ...
None of them provide any content. It is a characterization of Kant's philosophy that applies to synthetic philosophies in general. Wherever there is c...
Logic supplies no content; it consists in procedural rules. Kant's philosophy is the product of logically constrained imagination; that is it consists...
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20121128-animals-that-can-count https://www.newscientist.com/gallery/mg20227131600-animals-that-count/ I didn't say...
Yes, mathematics is one example of a symbolic language. I see mathematics as being an elaboration of the basic, prelinguistic ability to count. I say ...
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