By: Clive Robinson
@ Winter, bl5q sw5N, Re : A soul by any other name… “But that was somehow not the essence @bl5q sw5N intended. So I am at a loss what kind of essence s/he expects or wants.” As I noted way above,...
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@Clive Well because with it would die “free will” and that is not something I’m willing to cede. Given that no one has a good definition of “free will” or actually knows what it is supposed to be, who...
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@ Winter, Re : Self determination. “The the question is, “Why does it matter?”. After which we get into the area of a desire for human sacrifice and torture (aka, the desire to punish people).” As with...
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@ Winter @ Clive Robinson Kant wrote, we are unable to know the essence of things Kant is not talking about essence when he speaks of the “Ding an sich”. He is talking simply about things. He is saying...
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@bl5q sw5N Kant is not talking about essence when he speaks of the “Ding an sich”. He is talking simply about things. You should brush up on your German. It means a “Thing by itself”, not just the...
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@bl5q sw5N This is to be expected as Kant’s starting point is the same as Descartes’s, namely all we have are ideas in the mind. Clearly from that starting point one will never be able to reach outside...
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@bl5q sw5N This kind of thing happens all the time in mathematics and is one of the ways mathematics progresses. Mathematics is pure and an artifact of the mind. However, mathematics does not describe...
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@ Winter brush up on your German Kant, The Critique of Pure Reason (A273) – But since the expression “outside us” carries with it an unavoidable ambiguity, since it sometimes signifies something that,...
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@ Winter (A273) That should be A373, the first or A edition of the Critique of Pure Reason, page 373. https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/kant-transcendental-idealism/
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@bl5q sw5N But since the expression “outside us” carries with it an unavoidable ambiguity, since it sometimes signifies something that, as a thing in itself [Ding an sich selbst], exists distinct from...
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@ Winter Karl Popper in his interpretation Skimming through Logic of Scientific Discovery, Conjectures and Refutations, Realism and the Aim of Science, suggests that Popper does accept an external...
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@bl5q sw5N Skimming through Logic of Scientific Discovery, Conjectures and Refutations, Realism and the Aim of Science, suggests that Popper does accept an external reality, which scientific theories...
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