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 thing

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 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. -- Stathi

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

2012-10-24 Thread Roger Clough
the following content - From: Stathis 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 > >

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

2012-10-24 Thread Roger Clough
Re: Kant's 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 perce

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

2012-10-24 Thread Roger Clough
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: 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 (Probl

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 i

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 t

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 Stathis Papaioannou
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) is the > thesis that we cannot > prove that objects outside us exist. This results directly from Descartes' > proposition > that t

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 the

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 o