So there might be a point that the paradox breaks-down as you move from physics to maths. An infinite geometric series in maths is inapplicable to a physically real distance. — Nemo2124
Whether will is truly free with or without Reason is a good debate. — Gregory
Schopenhauer's "Will" was without direction, ultimately free. Hegel says there is Fate founded on Reason. They are both right in a way — Gregory
Doesn't Kant acknowledge that Metaphysics is not the same type of Science as the other Sciences?When he performed that experiment, he discovered he could not make metaphysics a science in the same manner as the established sciences, — Mww
The full detail is in Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics.So….what are those boundaries? Therein lay the key. — Mww
even if it was my opinion, by recognizing the subjective natural of it, I’d keep it to myself. — Mww
It is not so much of our issue at this time of history whether metaphysics works as science or not.We don’t care that metaphysics works as a science just fine with respect to possible experience; we’d be in trouble if it didn’t. — Mww
Of course you don't see it because you are not named in his scornful posts, and he treats you with respect for your condoning his nonsense. :DEhhhhh…..that’s a subjective judgement, better known as mere opinion, to which of course you are entitled. I don’t see it, — Mww
The presumption that I seek only easy answers and have not read a lot is a low effort response on your part. — Paine
So far, I have no reason to believe that you have actually read the Critique of Pure Reason. — Paine
I was asking you to support your claims by quoting CPR. — Paine
We have a part agreement here, which is a rare event.I agree. But to know a word is to use it, and to us either is to know it. — Banno
Actually it is difficult for me to imagine what colour blind would be like without being one myself, hence the point was purely from inference. You could be right. Please carry on....but nor does it mean that they do not! — Banno
If one says one can use words without knowing its meanings, then he is wrong, whoever he is.Well if your are to convince me of this I'd first have to be convinced that you understood Wittgenstein. — Banno
They must have been acquainted with something other than "red" to be able to do that by habit or guessing. That doesn't mean they know what "red" is. Their use of "red" could be based on the high chance of fluke guessing.... and so on. If I ask for the red pen, and they hand me the red pen, that's not metaphorical, nor is it merely rhetorically, and it certainly isn't idiomatic. It's pretty much literal and extensional. — Banno
Is there a place in the CPR where "experience" has a self-evident role such as you describe? — Paine
Not that I’m aware. Metaphysics in Kant does not, in itself, deal with experience or its objects. It deals with how it is possible to know about them, which means, it deals with us and the proper use of our intelligence. — Mww
Think on it some more. — Banno
What is the difference between learning the meaning of a word and learning to use the word? — Banno
Turns out, metaphysics cannot be a proper science given the empirical criteria of Newtonian materialism, nor can it be a science given the Kantian rational criteria of pure synthetic a priori principles, insofar as, first, Newtonian materialism already refers to the science of physics thus to attribute to it metaphysics at the same time is self-contradictory, and second, those principles belong to reason alone, and science cannot be justified by any domain the only objects for which are transcendental ideas. — Mww
Yep - The meanings of words are learned by using them... — Banno
If that were so, no one would ever learn the meaning of a word. — Banno
I'm wondering what the ISBN of that book is in your picture? I want to look it up and see what the difference is. — Moliere
I think Kant is a dualist because there is the "I think therefore I am" thinking person, and the thing in itself that is unknowable. Kant fails to get rid of the thing in itself. He wants to know more, but can't. Kant can't. Poor Kant — Gregory
I read the books, not the commentary on them. Skip the middle-man, donchaknow. Translators being subject to peer-review critique, so out of my cognitive jurisdiction. — Mww
If you say so. — Mww
Of course not. He’s dead. — Mww
Now we have already declared ourselves for this transcendental idealism from the outset. Thus our doctrinea removes all reservations about assuming the existence of matter…”
(A370, Guyer/Wood, 1998) — Mww
“…The transcendental idealist, on the other hand, may be an empirical realist, or, as he is called, a dualist, that is, he may admit the existence of matter (…) — Mww
“…. The transcendental idealist, on the contrary, can be an empirical realist, hence, as he is called, a dualist, i.e., he can concede the existence of matter (…) — Mww
I keep seeing a need for "meaning" in order to give a convincing account of how intension works. — J
Yes. You should know some of Kant before reading Hegel — Gregory
The dualism between mind and body is real in Hegel, but at the completion of Spirit all is One, as it always was. — Gregory
This result, grasped in its positive aspect, is nothing else but the inner negativity of the determinations as their self-moving soul, the principle of all natural and spiritual life." Science of Logic, Introduction — Gregory