too kind, triplegood In fact I suspect that I offended good taste in my closing sentence, which took my entire effort out of the category of eloquence, in my ...
John, I'm trying to "read along" but, alas, my participation in this list is frustratingly confused and erratic. My posts are sometime not distributed at all,...
"In my view the point of departure for the Deduction is the assumption that every appearance capable of becoming an object of knowledge is presented to mind...
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... Which is the noxious dualism ... all ... I would need convincing that Kant is not just laying down definitions. It doesn't sound much like a claim by...
Interesting comments Tom. I think of reality as the depth that appearances have. There is structure at the surface which is clearly evident in the appearances ...
Yes, there are both intellectual and intuitional epistemic conditions that must be satisfied in order for the appearance to constitute an object for us. On the...
Tom, This quote is Omar's paraphrase of Kant, which I was quoting back to him (Omar.) Kant's own words re this matter can be found at A370f, where Kant sets...
Frankly these passages in CPR confuse me as they don't seem to conform to his general system. Perhaps that is why they don't appear in the second edition (if...
Tom, The "arrogance" is found in supposing that empirical objects are nothing outside of appearance. (Ditto for supposing that space and time are only ideal.)...
I don't think Kant was saying that empirical objects are *synonymous with* appearances, merely that, in so far as we can refer to them as empirical objects,...
I wrote: In so far as we can refer to them as ... I should add: 'and potential appearances'. But remember, Kant is no phenomenalist. Tom ... *synonymous ... as...
Tom, For me, the issue at hand boils down to this question: Is it an imporant feature of human experience that we are (partially) ignorant and fallible, in...
... (partially) ... relation to ... It is only the the inherent limitations of our experience that render the empirical the empirical. If all sensory...
Yeah, but there is a big assumption to the point of view related below. The assumption is this: that the divine model of intelligence, a cognition that...
... intelligence, ... it ... I don't see it as an assumption as it can be argued for. I don't even think we need to incorporate any notion of a divine mind; we...
... TripleG, Your questions about the meanings for Kant of transcendental idealism and transcendental realism are best answered for me in the Transcendental...
As additional warning against mistaking Kant's epistemological concern for a radical ontology, I report this supporting evidence from the first Critique...
John: This is where I find Allison's book on Kant's transcendental idealism so helpful to me right now. I personally find it a constant struggle to shift my...
... The answer to your good question is best found (I'm sure you know) in the interesting "Appendix" of the Transcendental Analytic. But first, why does Kant...
John: I will leave it there for now. I don't quite understood the point made in the Prolegomena about spherical triangles. It is Akademie page numbers 285-286...
... I marvel that, even before beginning the second division of the Transcendental Logic (the Dialectic), Kant feels he has in the Transcendental Aesthetic and...
John: To answer your question, I gave up on academic studies many years ago, before I even made it to my junior year in college. I wonder if that makes me a...
Paul Collins Hayner's monograph on Schelling's philosophy of history reports the 19-year old Wunderkind also viewed the Critique as a new epistemology rather...
... I read you, triplegood, and I support the efforts of any thinker who tries to stay "with it" after life choices have landed him in an unphilosophical...
Hayner's comments below tend to paint too much of a black and white picture of the situation with regard to Kant. For one thing, although, without a doubt, the...
John: The thought struck me, just a few days ago, that the duration of time that has transpired since Kant set forth his critical philosophy has been...
... Mark, I'm sorry I can't answer your specific question, but it indicates a more general interest in influences on Kant, and I write because I happened to be...
I wrote this as a hypothetical standard for someone professing love of wisdom who has a career outside professional philosophy. Thrice- great, how would you...
John: I have a few of my own suggestions to make along these lines: 1. Keep a journal. 2. Also read classics, science, history and literature. Hb3g ... one ......
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