305. “But you surely can’t deny that, for example, in remembering, an inner process takes place.” — What gives the impression that we want to deny anything?
306. Why ever should I deny that there is a mental process?
307. “Aren’t you nevertheless a behaviourist in disguise? Aren’t you nevertheless basically saying that everything except human behaviour is a fiction?” — If I speak of a fiction, then it is of a grammatical fiction.
David Stove, ever heard of the noumena-phenomena distinction in Kant? — Olivier5
Kant’s questions are so strange and arresting that no one who has once heard them ever forgets them. It is just the reverse with his answers to them: no one can ever remember what these are! And there is a simple reason for this: the questions never get answered at all. Once they have served as an excuse for the darkening of sufficient acreage of wood-pulp, they just get lost.
- Three lies between two and four only by a convention which mathematicians have adopted.
- There is an integer between two and four, but it is not three, and its true name and nature are not to be revealed.
- Three is an incomplete object, only now coming into existence.
- The tie which unites the number three to its properties (such as primeness) is inexplicable.
Stove on Kant: — Banno
. I recall his analogy about philosophical scepticism being like the Uroboros, the snake that eats itself - ‘the hardest part’, he would say, with a wry grin, ‘is the last bite’. — Wayfarer
...how do you confirm when they're true? — khaled
Well, if it is raining, while you go dancing in the puddles, do you choose to believe that it is raining? — Banno
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When we believe something all we’re saying is that we agree on it. — Banno
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