Janus

I'd say language, being our primary medium of communication, is not capable of getting "behind itself" in order to derive "a realist theory of languag...

I was referring to the passage you presented as a rebuttal of this which I quoted.

Of course not: for it to count as a deliberate act we would need to be precognitively aware of our own primordial affections. We might assume that the...

That quoted passage says nothing about the "forms".

Our everyday experience consists of images, sensations and impressions, which we model as a world of empirical objects. Do we say that modeling is a p...

Why do you say that? Kant allowed for empirical knowledge; justifying scientific knowledge was one of his major concerns.

Yes, it has always seemed to me that the 'cave' metaphor in Plato is better read as the contrast between unthinking acceptance of the shadows on the w...

Right, what I should have said is "your argument that there is no conceptual space for the idea that things exist for us in different ways", that we m...

We do learn abstract concepts via experience; how else would we learn them, if we are not born with them? Anyway, that is a red herring: why don't you...

Firstly, I am not an Empiricist philosopher and secondly, I am not making any claim about any "ultimate" explanation for the existence of anything. Nu...

This is patently false: objects exist for us in a different way than sensations, thoughts or emotions. Inanimate objects exist for us in a different w...

This all seems fine on a cursory reading. So, I won't respond further until I find time to think on it some more.

I would say that is true only when it is not realized that the arguments are contradictory, unless you can offer a counterexample. If it is only true ...

Right, I get that, but I still don't see why something manifesting as both particle and wave is logically contradictory. The laws of nature changing e...

My impression is that we are talking about entirely different things. For what it's worth I don't think philosophical argumentation wherein people pit...

I will just point out that a photon being a wave and a particle is not logically equivalent to a photon both being and not being a particle, because i...

That's probably true, but if inconsistencies in your position, which you were unaware of, are pointed out to you, would it not be intellectually disho...

An interesting post, and on first reading I find nothing to disagree with, which bodes not well for discussion. That said, I'm a bit time-restricted r...

Obviously two things cannot be said strictly simultaneously. What I meant was that within the presentation of an argument self-contradiction would mak...

If the LNC is something we recognize it does not follow that it is nothing but a recognition. In fact, it couldn't be: something must exist first in o...

No, I haven't said or suggested that. I said that discussions are usually coherent and consistent, just because if they were not, they would not be se...

Are you asking what arguments there could be for an ideal of justice that is not grounded on power? If so, I would ask whether there is any rational a...

As I said I see it not as being a presupposition, but as a recognition of something necessary to thought and discussion. So, of course, it will not ch...

Right, using the categories of understanding without making them explicit seems to obviously come before reflecting on our experience and judgement an...

That's a fair response!

I'm not sure there is a difference...do you think there is? Is it self-evident that sensible discussion would be impossible if people routinely contra...

Is that how we think: starting with conclusions and then working backwards to find the prinicples they are based upon? I'd say that kind of reflection...

None of history is directly testable, but there are documents we presume to have been based on empirical observations. In any case the subject is not ...

That's one way of framing it, with its own set of basic presuppositions, but is it any more than that. Is there no other way it can be framed?

I don't see first principles as being capable of proof, or as being self-evident. I think they represent the presuppositions we must make in order to ...

But are we not natural beings, with a natural capacity to reflect on experience and arrive at generalized ideas about the nature of that experience an...

Not really, I see the problem of consciousness as being either a scientific question, which is not strictly relevant to the ethical, aesthetical and s...

But no one contests the question of being in the sense that the fact of our existence is not at issue. It is the nature of that existence which is at ...

It doesn't work because, even if there could be a fact of the matter as to whether the premises of arguments not subject to empirical testing are true...

I don't see the question of the exclusion of the subject being addressed there, rather it is about whether or not qualia should be excluded from the c...

This exchange seems quite absurd to me. @"Javra" argues that no one can see the mind's eye which, like the physical eye, cannot see itself in the act ...

Right, so the "anyone's" the findings are replicable by are not first persons? If they are first persons then please explain how they have been exclud...

So, are you saying that mathematics presents us with pure a priori understanding inasmuch as we can discover novel mathematical truths without any emp...

:100: My sentiments exactly!

:up: Yes, we don't want to get too close to the one or the other of these "monstrous" views.

Fair enough. I can't argue with you about it because I have not been involved with cosmology at the institutional level; I can only go on what Hands d...

Far be it from me to think I am an expert Kant interpreter—I just interpret in terms of what makes sense to me. So, I cannot see how Kant could justif...

:up: There would not seem to be many proponents of the blank slate these days. The salient question seems to be whether it is merely capacities or ten...

Not getting the reference. I was talking about the human tendency to dogmatize theories like Darwin's and the BB, according them the status of facts, ...

A forger could be a genius too, or not. If not, then I doubt there would be much trouble detecting forgery. I hadn't realized there have been so many ...

How could you have an understanding of space or time if you had never been embodied in a spatiotemporal realm? Reason and logic alone are empty and by...

I believe that is untrue. Kant as I remember it, acknowledges that all knowledge begins with experience. The synthetic a priori is knowledge which has...

What is rational ability, though? The ability to compare and measure (ratio) is undeniably something we, and some animals can do. But rationality cons...

Well, yes, it doesn't matter who the proponent is; the point is that the argument has it backwards (in my view). I would say that all you need is the ...

Art is a way of speaking about feelings and experiences which cannot be rendered in generalized explanatory terms. My experience is that you may start...