I'm on a Brandom kick, so I'll mention his take. Representings are responsible to the represented thing, which functions like a target. Gadamer may come into play here. A kind of unspecified completeness is imagined from the beginning.Representationalism is about correspondence between the language and the world. — RussellA
As reason and judgement are attributes of the mind, they can only be the responsibility of the individual making that reasoning and judgement. — RussellA
What is in the mind corresponds to what is in the brain. What is expressed in the mind must be in some way be expressed in the brain, in that the mind doesn't have a soul outside of time and space allowing it to act independently of the brain. The mind cannot change without a corresponding change in the brain. — RussellA
Hume’s denial that there is an inner perception of the self as the owner of experience is one that is echoed in Kant’s discussion in both the Transcendental Deduction and the Paralogisms, where he writes that there is no intuition of the self “through which it is given as object” — RussellA
We learn by observing nature. Then we take those observations and extract their essences. — jgill
I'm with you in spirit, but perhaps we dream up those essences and only later learn to check if they or their implications are compatible with observations. — igjugarjuk
If you start with a logical system, it shouldn't be a surprise that you end up with something logical.I think all participants here know about the statement of the unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics. Shouldn't we, rather, speak of it's reasonable effectiveness? I can't see nothing unreasonable about it and can't even imagine how else it could be. — Landoma1
In all my years as a mathematician, however, I must confess that I have never worked in applied mathematics. Like most in my profession, I explored an intriguing abstract concept. Still do. — jgill
I would make the bold declaration that animals use logic, even if they don't understand they are using logic. — ssu
Understood correctly, Berkeley was a defender of common-sense who cannot be interpreted as saying that the world is a 'figment of the imagination — sime
A kind of unspecified completeness is imagined from the beginning. — igjugarjuk
It looks to me that we have an entire system here of inherited concepts, which only make sense together. — igjugarjuk
But 'forever private experience' opens up an abyss of possibility. It's outside the space of reasons — igjugarjuk
Hume is like an actor on a stage among other actors. His speeches are unified as his speeches..and interpreted as such a unity. — igjugarjuk
Another common point is that theory guides observation in the first place (tells us what to look for, frames the situation.) — igjugarjuk
I speculate my specialty (infinite compositions of complex functions) is a solution awaiting a problem. :cool: — jgill
Pseudomathematics, or mathematical crankery, is a mathematics-like activity that does not adhere to the framework of rigor of formal mathematical practice. Common areas of pseudomathematics are solutions of problems proved to be unsolvable or recognized as extremely hard by experts, as well as attempts to apply mathematics to non-quantifiable areas. — Wikipedia
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