http://groups.yahoo.com/group/descartes/ Descartes: Slow readings & discussion Sat, 14 Feb 2009 20:05:27 GMT Joseph Polanik http://groups.yahoo.com/group/descartes/message/687 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/descartes/message/687 Contingent A Priori ... in some sense a contingent a priori is similar to a forensic inference. this is a form of logic in which one begins from a fact and Sat, 31 Jan 2009 15:49:07 GMT Joseph Polanik http://groups.yahoo.com/group/descartes/message/686 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/descartes/message/686 Restatement of the Central Argument ... [Joe]: nor did I say they were. I said that you first admitted being aware of them in your last post. after months of Sun, 18 Jan 2009 20:16:27 GMT Joseph Polanik http://groups.yahoo.com/group/descartes/message/685 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/descartes/message/685 I been revising my website and I've added a page that focuses exclusively on defining 'am' and discuss its use: http://what-am-i.net/alpi_am_definition.htm Tue, 02 Dec 2008 06:58:55 GMT danasamsone http://groups.yahoo.com/group/descartes/message/684 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/descartes/message/684 hello! is anyone aware of what the connection between Pascal's Pensees 33 and the second Meditation? Pascal 33 ''Poetical beauty.--As we speak of poetical Sun, 23 Nov 2008 14:46:41 GMT Joseph Polanik http://groups.yahoo.com/group/descartes/message/683 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/descartes/message/683 [Joe]: however, in any inquiry into the structure of the human individual, it is woefully inadequate because it has not yet been established that the human is Sat, 22 Nov 2008 15:04:33 GMT Joseph Polanik http://groups.yahoo.com/group/descartes/message/682 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/descartes/message/682 ... [Joe (new)]: in some cases, perhaps most cases, that might be close enough for conversational use; after all, it worked for Lord Greystoke. however, in any Wed, 19 Nov 2008 11:20:47 GMT Joseph Polanik http://groups.yahoo.com/group/descartes/message/681 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/descartes/message/681 [Joe]: I am the referent of 'I' whenever I say "I am". hence, I am self-aware. since nothing unreal is self-aware, it follows that I am real (in some sense). Fri, 14 Nov 2008 12:10:46 GMT Joseph Polanik http://groups.yahoo.com/group/descartes/message/680 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/descartes/message/680 ... it is a wise move to logically separate the initial Cogito argument from Descartes' ultimate conclusion that he is a soul that would continue to exist even Fri, 14 Nov 2008 12:07:12 GMT Joseph Polanik http://groups.yahoo.com/group/descartes/message/679 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/descartes/message/679 [Joe]: however, it sounds like you have redefined 'universal quantifier'. a statement like 'I am' is more like an existentially quantified statement; Fri, 14 Nov 2008 01:47:16 GMT Joseph Polanik http://groups.yahoo.com/group/descartes/message/678 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/descartes/message/678 it does not matter whether experience is or is not justified as knowledge. it is enough that I experience; and, draw the obvious conclusion --- I have to be in Thu, 13 Nov 2008 11:42:17 GMT Joseph Polanik http://groups.yahoo.com/group/descartes/message/677 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/descartes/message/677 Omar, as long as the Experiento is a true statement, I'm not sure it matters how it is classified according to the scheme that Kant used (synthetic/analytic, a Mon, 10 Nov 2008 11:48:54 GMT Joseph Polanik http://groups.yahoo.com/group/descartes/message/676 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/descartes/message/676 ... Descartes denied that he acquired his knowledge this way; but, since he stated it in the _Principles of Philosophy_ which he intended to be used as a Mon, 10 Nov 2008 11:02:53 GMT Joseph Polanik http://groups.yahoo.com/group/descartes/message/675 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/descartes/message/675 ... [Joe (new)]: I could not generate that statement for you to hear/read unless my body was alive; but, it is not yet proven that I am identical to my body; Sun, 09 Nov 2008 13:32:05 GMT Joseph Polanik http://groups.yahoo.com/group/descartes/message/674 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/descartes/message/674 ... yes. 'I allege that I am alive; therefore, I am alive' is a self-verifying performative argument. the fact that I can make the self-referencing allegation Sun, 09 Nov 2008 12:38:52 GMT Joseph Polanik http://groups.yahoo.com/group/descartes/message/673 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/descartes/message/673 ... for reasons that remain obscure, some philosophers *do* get the idea that 'I am experiencing; therefore, I am' means that experiencing causes or produces