Re: Kant's Refutation of (Problematic) Idealism

2012-10-24 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 24 Oct 2012, at 02:01, Stephen P. King wrote: On 10/23/2012 5:47 PM, meekerdb wrote: On 10/23/2012 2:39 PM, Russell Standish wrote: I have not met this argument before. I have comments interspersed. On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 08:04:35AM -0400, Roger Clough wrote: Kant's Refutation of

Re: Re: Kant's Refutation of (Problematic) Idealism

2012-10-24 Thread Roger Clough
SNIP ROGER: 2) I can be aware of having experiences that occur in a specific temporal order only if I perceive something permanent by reference to which I can determine their temporal order. (premise) RUSSELL: What motivates this premise? ROGER: The permanent entity could be the first

Re: Re: Kant's Refutation of (Problematic) Idealism

2012-10-24 Thread Roger Clough
Refutation of (Problematic) Idealism On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 02:47:12PM -0700, meekerdb wrote: On 10/23/2012 2:39 PM, Russell Standish wrote: 2) can be aware of having experiences that occur in a specific temporal order only if I perceive something permanent by reference to which I can

Re: Re: Kant's Refutation of (Problematic) Idealism

2012-10-24 Thread Roger Clough
Papaioannou Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-10-23, 17:51:43 Subject: Re: Kant's Refutation of (Problematic) Idealism On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 11:04 PM, Roger Clough wrote: Kant's Refutation of (Problematic) Idealism Problematic Idealism (Berkeley's idealism, not that of Leibniz

Re: Re: Kant's Refutation of (Problematic) Idealism

2012-10-24 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 12:58 AM, Roger Clough rclo...@verizon.net wrote: Hi Stathis Papaioannou OK, but I think you are still left with the I. I doubted' still means there's an I present. There's an I present but not necessarily a world to contain it, which is what Kant set out to prove.

Re: Kant's Refutation of (Problematic) Idealism

2012-10-24 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 23 Oct 2012, at 14:04, Roger Clough wrote: Kant's Refutation of (Problematic) Idealism Problematic Idealism (Berkeley's idealism, not that of Leibniz) is the thesis that we cannot prove that objects outside us exist. This results directly from Descartes' proposition that the only

Re: Kant's Refutation of (Problematic) Idealism

2012-10-23 Thread Russell Standish
I have not met this argument before. I have comments interspersed. On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 08:04:35AM -0400, Roger Clough wrote: Kant's Refutation of (Problematic) Idealism Problematic Idealism (Berkeley's idealism, not that of Leibniz) is the thesis that we cannot prove that objects

Re: Kant's Refutation of (Problematic) Idealism

2012-10-23 Thread meekerdb
On 10/23/2012 2:39 PM, Russell Standish wrote: I have not met this argument before. I have comments interspersed. On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 08:04:35AM -0400, Roger Clough wrote: Kant's Refutation of (Problematic) Idealism Problematic Idealism (Berkeley's idealism, not that of Leibniz) is the

Re: Kant's Refutation of (Problematic) Idealism

2012-10-23 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 11:04 PM, Roger Clough rclo...@verizon.net wrote: Kant's Refutation of (Problematic) Idealism Problematic Idealism (Berkeley's idealism, not that of Leibniz) is the thesis that we cannot prove that objects outside us exist. This results directly from Descartes'

Re: Kant's Refutation of (Problematic) Idealism

2012-10-23 Thread Russell Standish
On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 02:47:12PM -0700, meekerdb wrote: On 10/23/2012 2:39 PM, Russell Standish wrote: 2) can be aware of having experiences that occur in a specific temporal order only if I perceive something permanent by reference to which I can determine their

Re: Kant's Refutation of (Problematic) Idealism

2012-10-23 Thread meekerdb
On 10/23/2012 3:20 PM, Russell Standish wrote: On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 02:47:12PM -0700, meekerdb wrote: On 10/23/2012 2:39 PM, Russell Standish wrote: 2) can be aware of having experiences that occur in a specific temporal order only if I perceive something permanent by reference

Re: Kant's Refutation of (Problematic) Idealism

2012-10-23 Thread Stephen P. King
On 10/23/2012 5:47 PM, meekerdb wrote: On 10/23/2012 2:39 PM, Russell Standish wrote: I have not met this argument before. I have comments interspersed. On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 08:04:35AM -0400, Roger Clough wrote: Kant's Refutation of (Problematic) Idealism Problematic Idealism (Berkeley's