Questions tagged [empirical-apperception]
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Why aren't pure apperception and empirical apperception structurally identical, even though they are functionally identical in Kant's Anthropology?
I can't be the only one who finds this strange. Section 7 of Anthropology from a Pragmatic Perspective, entitled "On Sensibility in contrast to understanding", reads as follows:
In regard to the state of its representations, my mind is either…
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Is 'equality' ultimately grounded in empirical observation?
Let's say I invent a concept X in my own imaginings. The only property it has is X-ness; it is defined as 'that which is represented by X'. I have just defined that to be the case. It seems to me, now, that it must be true that X=X. X is the…
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Is materialism a self-refuting position?
I have been trying to poke a hole in the following apparently naive argument against materialism/physicalism:
The main justification for materialism is that a person doesn't believe in that which doesn't have observable or measurable properties.…
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Delayed perception
We're aware of a delay in perceptions due the the brains processing speed, but if thoughts and actions are a subconscious process and our conscious mind only becomes aware of the thoughts, the same way it becomes aware of perceptions, is it possible…
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Superiority of the concept as opposed to synthetic apperception
In The Foundations of Arithmetic (§ 48, p. 61), after maintaining that statements of numbers are indeed statements of fact, Frege asserts that:
The concept has a power of collecting together far superior to the unifying power of synthetic…
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Does Locke's saying "the mind has no other immediate object but its own ideas …." deconstruct his own general theory and agree with Berkeley’s?
Locke says: "Since the mind ... hath no other immediate object but its own ideas, which it alone can contemplate, it is evident that our knowledge is only conversant about them."
If we take this view literally, doesn't it deconstruct Locke's own…
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The Objective Reality: Honesty -> Truth -> Reality
The Objective Reality
It is true the study of the subjective reality takes note of the personal experience and because we all have our seperate existence we all have our own mind and knowledge, but is there a way for reality to be objective while we…
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