Right, I see what you mean. However, I wouldn't say that empirical reality is derivative, more like it is one aspect of the real. I mean, sure, it is,...
The way I understand it, sensory experiences are real, in fact it is from sensory appearance that the notion of reality is derived. But since we don't...
No, Kant is merely saying that if there are appearances, then logically speaking, there must be things which appear, whatever the in itself existence ...
I think it all depends on what you mean by "qualitative seeing". People with colour agnosia can "guess" with not perfect, but greater than random accu...
I think this is the pertinent question. What is important to humans is how the world seems to humans because that is all we have to work with. The wor...
Out of those three, only dogmatism (defined as the belief that one knows what others should think) is arguably an evil, per se. So anti-dogmatism ther...
Yes, Kant himself says that the desire to, and idea that we can, discover a metaphysics which is more than merely a metaphysics of possible experience...
The existence of things in themselves is an inference from the invariance and intersubjective commonality of sensations. And I submit to you that all ...
I would argue that if there is no awareness of seeing that it makes no sense to speak of qualitative seeing. Again I would say that being disassocited...
Why would thinking that children should not be forced to do what they don't want to make me a fanatic? And why appeal to @"jamal" for support? I agree...
I don't expect to be able to reason with fundamentalist theists any more than I do with miltitant anti-theists. I'm going to treat the above response ...
I agree that what might seem like personal preference is not free from other influences, but that is a whole different can of worms. What you've never...
Right, and if all parties could acknowledge that their reasoning is based on premises which are not unbiased, not based on purely rational thought, bu...
I already pointed out that 180s argument, by implication, equates fascism with theism, and by extension anti-fascism with anti-theism., and he claimed...
If all you are advocating is that people become better educated, then I have no argument with that. That said, there are plenty of highly educated the...
:rofl: :up: I agree that people are not as rational as they imagine. Also, rationality as a principle of argumentation is really just being consistent...
That amounts to saying that theism is the moral equivalent of nazism or sexism. :roll: Nor am I; I thought you were identifying the dogmatic aspect of...
A robot, just like the person who suffers from visual agnosia can see and respond to what they are seeing, but do not have the self-reflective awarene...
Let's get this clear. If atheism is simply a lack of believe in God, then I am an atheist because I don't believe there is a God. The next step would ...
No need for any apology Bob. Perhaps it would be better to start afresh and in a more concrete way. You seem to be saying that by virtue of feeling ou...
You have a higher opinion of general human nature and potential than I do. I agree with Spinoza: “Everything excellent is as difficult as it is rare.”...
Of course, that's fine for you, and for me. What percentage of the population do you think can, and wants to, think for itself? That's all right; ther...
What I really meant was that unless either of us can come up with some new and convincing arguments, neither of us seems likely to change their mind. ...
I also think it is highly unlikely that either science or religion will cease to be major aspects of human life as long as civilization as we know it ...
I can't think of any specific major problems caused by magical thinking, and I think it, delusion and willful ignorance are primordial features of hum...
I think we more or less agree, but I would say that both the objective and the subjective are ideas rather than realities from the human perspective. ...
Right, that is the undogmatic response, but it may also be an evasion or deflection in the form of an implied promissory note that it will all certain...
I just don't see religion as being a major contributor to the array of problems humanity faces. If there are ways in which some religious sects or asp...
Right, but I haven't been saying the author did not know what they meant in the sense of had no idea what they meant but that they may have meant more...
I would say that subjective consciousness may not be what we naively or intuitively think it is, and that. maybe (I'd have to think further on this) t...
Right, but I wasn't saying that; I was saying that the wordsmith's words may be capable of associations and interpretations that the wordsmith had not...
I don't think it's merely a matter of semantics. I'm not claiming that you can see the world from my perspective. I'm saying that we don't experience ...
What if I said that the viewpoint of the subject is thought, not experienced? The subject perceives (experiences) things from some perspective (viewpo...
OK, you're just repeating the same black and white assertion, and applying it universally to boot; and since I was already aware of what you asserted ...
You seem to be stuck in black and white thinking: you seem to think that either the author has no idea what they mean, or they are one hundred percent...
The trouble is that there is no reliable data of qualitative experience. There are personal reports, but personal reports do no count as reliable data...
If you don't agree that multiple interpreatations of literary works are possible I think either we must agree to disagree or we are somehow talking pa...
What you say may be true in some cases, but I think you are over-generalizing. Not every writer of fiction "drudges out the third draft" or necessaril...
That whole aspect of Christianity has never made any sense to me either. Great literature is often characterized by ambiguity, by layered allusions, b...
I'd say metaphysics informed by science is informed by the world around us, as we find it both in terms of ordinary observations and inductive reasoni...
Resurrection, no...not sure exactly what you had in mind with "sacrifice". but some sacrifice I think is intrinsic to human relationship. :up: I think...
Perhaps if I went back and performed textual analysis I could come up with something, but off the top of my head, no. I cannot precisely formulate any...
I see the speculative part in science as consisting in abductive reasoning, and I would say that even those speculative aspects of science are informe...
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