However, there has been a long standing claim in philosophy, notably popularized by Kant, but perhaps going back to Protagoras, that we can't escape our conceptual schemas. — Marchesk
Our modern cosmology... — Marchesk
a mature neuroscience will eliminate propositional content as an explanation for human cognition — Marchesk
I think that is a very simplistic and problematical gloss of what Kant said. — Wayfarer
But what if he just had no idea what he was talking about, and believed something stupid? — The Great Whatever
Thus "man is the measure of all things", Kant's fundamental categories of thought and the unknowable noumena beyond it, and the resulting correlationism, as Meillassoux puts it,
Correlationism rests on an argument as simple as it is powerful, and which can be formulated in the following way: No X without givenness of X, and no theory about X without a positing of X. If you speak about something, you speak about something that is given to you, and posited by you. Consequently, the sentence: ‘X is’, means: ‘X is the correlate of thinking’ in a Cartesian sense. That is: X is the correlate of an affection, or a perception, or a conception, or of any subjective act. To be is to be a correlate, a term of a correlation . . . That is why it is impossible to conceive an absolute X, i.e., an X which would be essentially separate from a subject. We can’t know what the reality of the object in itself is because we can’t distinguish between properties which are supposed to belong to the object and properties belonging to the subjective access to the object.
It would seem then that conceptual schemas are fluid, and subject to revision or replacement after checking the world. — Marchesk
Is the question as to whether we can "get outside" our conceptual schemes meant in the sense of 'outside all possible conceptual schemes' or 'outside one conceptual scheme and into another'? — John
Also, is this question understood by you to be equivalent to the question as to whether we can get outside our "faculties"? — John
Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one can escape by pulling up the ladder of language in silence.
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I'd rather read what Banno has to say — John
There's no sense in which we can get outside of them to check whether the world is different from how we think of it. — Marchesk
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