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The Philosophy of David Hume by Norman Kemp Smith Confessions by Kanae Minato

"Here we have a wide ocean before us, but we must set our sails. Were sense knowledge and understanding ,then he that sees light and colours, and feel...

There sure is, you're correct. Just pointing out that Hume was very much an innatist, contrary to popular belief. But his innate mechanisms are very w...

Sure. Everything ultimately emerges from our minds. The hard thing is to determine what is innate at birth and how to best phrase and understand these...

For Kant, relativity. Kant spoke of "space" and "time" as forms of sensible intuition, because he thoughts these were absolute. Now we know they're no...

Hmmm. It looks to me as if it were a sub component of perception. So yes. Of course, Hume and Kant were heavily influenced by Newton, but now we may h...

With Kant, you frequently get a good deal of technical jargon, which, to my mind, is not always needed - it can tend to obscure his point, or at least...

Thanks for the source, I'll add it to my to read-shortly reading list.

I can't even keep up. It's way too much. I mean, IF this war is over, we should breathe a BIG sigh of relief. Cause' this can turn from very ugly to a...

Oh. You are going to enjoy talking here. A lot of disagreement. Some pretty wild.

Ah. I argue that Kant does not solve the problem of causation, nor that of object constancy. I think it makes sense to say that causation is something...

Hey man. Nice to be able to talk about something fascinating. I haven't read the OP in detail, will do so later, but I'd like to see what you make of ...

I understand the appeal, but don't see the necessity.

@Mods If you think this goes against the rules, in terms of reviving an old thread, please delete. If not, I'd like to share something here. Here's a ...

I mean if people actually read Locke and Hume, instead of reading about them, they'd find a lot of material on these things, of the highest quality. B...

I don't know anymore. I've been broken on this topic.

Well we would be us judging ourselves, so it would make sense to be impressed with what we know. Which, I admit, is quite a bit. For an "evolved" ape,...

] Pretty much. All we have in the end is speculation. Why shouldn't it? Strictly speaking, nature holds no secret. We just don't have the necessary eq...

Well, correct. I think math helps us discover some of the abstract structural characteristics of the universe. But it doesn't apply well to things wel...

What's curious here is why we even have the capacity to do physics at all, and also why the universe seems to be "built" in such a way that math can s...

You have to try to isolate whatever a "mind" is. But we don't even know what it is. So, no, I highly doubt it.

What you say is true. And of course, this is a reaction to Russia's war. But I'm not sure it's a smart move. This war has been a really bad mistake (c...

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/4/14/russia-warns-of-nuclear-deployment-if-sweden-finland-join-nato Russia warns of nuclear deployment if Sweden, ...

Thanks for the clarification. I had just woken up, so I was slower than I usually am. :sweat: Sure, what you say here makes sense. And indeed, a and b...

Only compleat questions are allowed. But then we cannot mock people. Booo.

Facts.

Could you rephrase this, I'm not following. I do agree with your first statement, prior to this. That's commonly part of imperial dogma, they do need ...

I'm no commie, I'll say that, but these China accusations are pretty wild. You REALLY gotta buy the "Western POV", hook, line and sinker

Human rights and NATO! Is that a joke? Because Turkey is a prime example of human rights. The purpose of NATO was to contain the Soviet Union. Why is ...

If that's true, why didn't NATO accept Russia as a member back in 2000? Contain China? Where? They're going to some areas in the South China Sea, but ...

Well, if you overlook the fact that the US stole half of Mexico. It's not as if "San Francisco", "San Diego" or "El Paso" are English names, afer all....

What's scary is a nuclear war. What Russia is doing is criminal, no doubt at all about it. But if they're cornered without being offered a decent way ...

https://www.ft.com/content/dc70777f-05d9-4e44-8217-30f448e2b64f Finland to decide within ‘weeks’ whether to join Nato This is scary. It makes sense. B...

Yeah. No. That's for another thread.

That's a good diversion. Ask Cuba, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico, in fact all of South America.

What does that have to do with anything? Like at all? Clearly the US, but that's immaterial to this.

They can have a crap army, it doesn't matter. North Korea's apparently is pretty crap. They don't get invaded. Wouldn't want a hostile military nation...

What? Oh, then let Russia put a base in Mexico in Canada, no problem.

Well. They could. They've surprised me before with this war. However, they have been warned about the use of chemical weapons. I don't think many peop...

Hard to believe she's still taken seriously. I mean, I prefer Deepak Chopra, literally. Stuck up *****. Sorry. Had to get that out of my system.

I mean, there should be people around that remember the Cuban Missile Crisis, not just Chomsky. But it's also cheap votes. It's disgusting. But - noth...

Took them long enough to say this. They've been really trying to make it seem as if there's almost no chance this can happen here, or a very low chanc...

Well. Maybe. But they surely must have heard that NATO will intervene if they use chemical weapons, or at least, this is what they've stated. The poin...

This still has a long ways to go, ffs. It's already been way too long. Each day these sanctions will bite more and more and then, we may see the Russi...

Austria’s Nehammer ‘pessimistic’ over Putin’s ‘war logic’ Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer has said he was “rather pessimistic” about the prospects f...

The only thing I like about "analytic" philosophy is that they try to be clear. But some of them do lack content, at least for me. Quine, for instance...

I think that what you're saying was already well known thousands of years ago, and was even discussed by Plato in his Cratylus dialogue. And all this ...

I would agree. I think however there are some very useful pearls of insights in Descartes and Cudworth (who is unknown) that really set the stage for ...

Recommendations without a area of interest are very strange to me. If you specify, I'm interested in Chomsky's political (or philosophical) recommenda...

It's extremely long, and should only be of interests to those who think what he's saying makes sense. I was only half-joking about "having" to read th...