So you think all a priori judgments are reasonable and discursive, but there is no intuition at any level. — Antinatalist
if you radically doubt everything, you doubt also science etc.
And I don´t think such a doubt is a rational way to view life. — Antinatalist
So you think all a priori judgments are reasonable and discursive, but there is no intuition at any level.
— Antinatalist
No intuitions, at any level? Yes, there are, at the empirical level. The sensible level, of real things, represented in us as phenomena. There is no knowledge of real things of experience without representations by intuition, just as there is no knowledge of abstract things of thought without representations as concepts. — Mww
You might see the problem here. Nothing given from concepts alone can tell us about the world of objects and nothing from intuition alone can tell us about abstract things, like beauty, justice, moral obligation, even though experience is rife with examples of them.
———- — Mww
This is not an absolute proof for the simple reason that we can't ever prove that we have understood our proofs correctly — Qmeri
I was thinking that perhaps reasoning about a priori judgments is itself intuitive. — Antinatalist
I was thinking that perhaps reasoning about a priori judgments is itself intuitive.
— Antinatalist
In that case, all we’re doing is exchanging the general form of the judgement, with particular matter that can be used to verify or falsify it. We are still reasoning about an intuition and not reasoning about an a priori judgement, the validity of it being a consequence. — Mww
But you prove/"prove" it intuitively, the question of is some a priori judgment true or false, is judged by intuition. — Antinatalist
But you prove/"prove" it intuitively, the question of is some a priori judgment true or false, is judged by intuition.
— Antinatalist
Close enough. We’re saying about the same thing.
I made a mistake, nonetheless, in that judgements don’t have truth values, as such. They stand, a posteriori, as the correctness of the relation between an object we sense and the object as it becomes known. Or, in the case of mere thought a priori, they stand as the validity of the relation of conceptions to each other. — Mww
Best to bear in mind the perspectives involved. When there are two distinct and separate cognitive systems in play, they are required to conform to each other in order to facilitate the possibility of productive communication. When either system operates on its own, for its own purpose, to its own end, there is no communication, the system is confined to itself internally. The difference is language, necessary for the communication between multiple systems, not even present in each singular system in its internal operations. So when it is said a judgement is true, what it meant is that the proposition composed and presented externally to represent the internal judgement in one system, conforms to the internal judgement in the other, from which his composed proposition would have been congruent, had he been the speaker rather than the listener. In effect, it is the proposition that holds truth value, and then only because a judgement has been made on the validity of the relations in the proposition given by one system, to the relations in the internal judgement of the other system, with respect to it.
Are we having fun yet? — Mww
"I think, therefore I am" — Qmeri
I think therefore I am not physical? — Rxspence
"I" is a perceived being.
It is not a logically deduced or proved by reason being. — Corvus
The only possible means for “I” at all, is by logical deduction. In humans, all logical deduction is only possible by reason. But “I” am not a being at all, so whether or not a being logically deduced or a being proved by reason, is moot. — Mww
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