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reason_lover2 — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 05:03:25 GMT

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Re: [kant] reflective judgment-- again

Reason Lover — Tue, 19 May 2009 12:58:27 GMT

" i agree that kant is a realist, and he certainly says so himself: an empirical realist and a transcendental idealist. part of what this means, i take it,

Re: [kant] Re: To the moderator: independent activity

Reason Lover — Mon, 11 May 2009 02:35:33 GMT

"Independent activity" means activity independent of Spirit. There is no theory of affection in Fichte's system, nothing to affect the Ego except Ego itself. I

Re: To the moderator: independent activity

Reason Lover — Sun, 10 May 2009 20:11:35 GMT

Our only misunderstanding could arise over the word "ought" which even in common language has a dual meaning, a moral and a theoretical one. We know what a

Re: [kant] Re: To the moderator: independent activity

Reason Lover — Sat, 09 May 2009 22:02:26 GMT

Not really. The thing-in-itself is such a product for Fichte, so the question remains of what produces the ought. What produces this "ought" for Kant's moral

Fw: Re: [kant] To the moderator: independent activity

Reason Lover — Sat, 09 May 2009 19:23:52 GMT

... From: Reason Lover Subject: Re: [kant] To the moderator: independent activity To: kant@yahoogroups.com Date: Saturday, May 9,

Re: [kant] reflective judgment-- again

Reason Lover — Fri, 08 May 2009 01:11:48 GMT

Kant, starting with experience, constructed various thought-experiments regarding the fact of experiencing itself. Everything in experience is spatial and/or

Re: Indisputable facts about the mind

Joseph Polanik — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 20:05:27 GMT

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

Re: An Observation Concerning the Unobserved Electron

Joseph Polanik — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 13:07:13 GMT

... correct. ... there is a contradiction only if one reads into statement 2 the assumption that knowledge can only come from observation. this is the

An Observation Concerning the Unobserved Electron

Joseph Polanik — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 12:48:28 GMT

... we can measure the emissions from EM sources; and, therefore, ... what? do you agree or disagree with any of the following: 1. we can not observe the

Re: Have Quantum Physicists Found the Thing-in-Itself?

Reason Lover — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 02:36:22 GMT

I still don't get your point since (let me use this for example) we can measure the emissions from light and radio wave sources.

Re: Have Quantum Physicists Found the Thing-in-Itself?

Joseph Polanik — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 17:13:57 GMT

... ahh! that explains it. ... I do wish to discuss the noumenal/phenomenal duality; but, I don't think the position/momentum indeterminacy is a suitable

Re: Have Quantum Physicists Found the Thing-in-Itself?

reason_lover2 — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 22:08:48 GMT

I see two issues here. First, you know it's a wave so you do have knowledge of it. What you don't know is the position/momentum of a particle at precisely the

Re: Have Quantum Physicists Found the Thing-in-Itself?

reason_lover2 — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 00:00:48 GMT

Joseph, Your post was caught in a Yahoo spam filter where it sat awaiting the group admin's permission to be submitted. Of course the admin (yours truly)

Re: Have Quantum Physicists Found the Thing-in-Itself?

Joseph Polanik — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 23:45:14 GMT

What part of my previous post led you to conclude (falsely, IMO) that I was talking about the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle? ... -- Philosophy is, after