Yeah, the ladder is used in different context, but it's the same metaphor. I'm not saying that Schopenhauer is being specifically original in many of ...
I don't remember off the top of my head exactly what was Wittgenstein took from Schopenhauer, but it has the flavor. For instance, the metaphor of rea...
The early Wittgenstein was a Schopenhauerian. He then abandoned transcendental views by the time of the Investigations, which though his best-known wo...
The issue here is connected with a kind of phrasing of the topic. One thing is to say there are things which exist, independent of us, thus they are b...
"And I have no cause for complaint on the grounds that God has not given me a greater power of understanding or the natural light which God gave me is...
Can a computer think? Locke points out: "..since we know not wherein thinking consists..." Or Russell: "I do not know whether dogs can think, or what ...
Hume style is fan'tastikal. "Tis easy to answer, that it is something, viz. a property of the objects, which affect the senses after such a particular...
Maybe I'm already starting the hair-splitting process, but, what kind of experience would you think as counting as a "meaningful human experience"? Is...
For the time being. There are elements with the government that are tired of Bibi, but sadly, many of the alternatives to him are even worse, which is...
The one thing we can say with significant confidence is that Bibi wants to stay in power for as long as possible. That does add strength to the claim ...
If things are, trivially they exist. If something exists, it has to have a way of existing, for if a thing had no way of existing, obviously it couldn...
The fire will stop once the Gaza operation stops, Hezbollah has been very clear about this. But they couldn't "swat the fly" in 2006, when they only f...
No of course not. It's been far from peaceful, but it's also been (relatively) contained for a long time. The issue then is, can the Israeli economy, ...
Man, this asinine, devilish, death spectacle is interminable, and Netanyahu wants it so, that he may stay in power. But at this specific point, I woul...
Maybe consider making an announcement in General or something, not everyone will go to the Shout Box and see that specific post. Which will save you r...
He really believed Hegel was a charlatan installed by those in power, weather it was a king or a governor or merely the academic establishment. He tho...
Oh yeah, he was an asshole. I think more highly of his thought and of Volume 2 of the WWR, but I can see why others may not. Though Hegel may have som...
Close. External objects stimulate something in us that cause an idea to arise, but the idea has no resemblance to the external object at all, only a k...
Yeah, give me a minute, I have my damn quotations in paperback, makes it very hard to give quotes without typing too much. "Hence you will have reason...
It depends on how you think about the systems of other figures, for Kant his system was radically new, for Cudworth, it was quite old (going back to P...
Ah, good to see they have added a bit of his epistemology in the SEP. I will continue to propagandize him. The notion of things-themselves is particul...
Excellent! :) Kant has a very interesting take on Leibniz metaphysics in the Amphiboly appendix in the Critique. Yes, Leibniz mentions Cudworth to Loc...
It was mine too, until I read pre-Kantians, from Descartes to Hume, they are significantly richer than as they are usually presented. Part of the reas...
Politeness is almost always a most excellent virtue, for there can be disagreement without animosity, which, in the best case, leads to mutual learnin...
Quite true, science investigates phenomena, not noumena (in a negative or positive sense). But this does not at all reduce the value of scientific the...
It's been a while since I've seen this post, don't recall if I've posted before, but we all end up repeating ourselves many times, so, that is not an ...
Metaphysics as traditionally understood is essentially the question, what is the (fundamental) nature of the world. Of course, we have achieved consid...
It's a bit tricky. We can say that certain objects have a kind of consistent reliability to stimulate us in a particular way. But then we have to expl...
By miracles I mean something which goes beyond whatever naturalism encapsulates, naturalism meaning, in my case, a thing of nature. Mind you, my defin...
We do what, perceive and think? Sure. But if it's a miracle (meaning, minds are not part of world-stuff), then maybe it happens once ever, in the whol...
Yeah, you've said something similar before I believe. I think the mind is part of the world, it isn't the same thing as an object, clearly, but it is ...
Yes, that's what I should have said. Well, if you consider say, geometrical shapes as sensations, then by definition everything in a dream would be so...
I'm only trying to show how the term is problematic, and I find this puzzling given all this talk about "externalism", as if this idea is so clear. I ...
The ideas of other people could be said to be external to you, in so far as they don't express what they are thinking, otherwise we assume they are a ...
Well, if you want to get super sticky, then in so far as your first sentence goes, sure, in SOME cases. What happens when we receive stimulus with no ...
Of course, I wouldn't dream of saying no such distinction exists, because, as you say, the difference between inside and outside is massive and would ...
That's a plausible way to explain how we arrive at such an internal/external distinction, just as having a dream and waking up to discover that its co...
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