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According to Kant, the noumenal is not accessible to us, and in this sense you cannot say anything about it, nor assume as you say " 'noumenal' world containing true divisions of objects". - that there are any divisions at all. Phenomenally, it is true to say that all categories are inter...

It does not have an identity except that which we as humans bestow upon it. Is that the same as objective? Or is it your interested and partial analysis from your own subject? It's thingness is not with the table but with the observer. My point could be interperated in a Kantian light as well. We c...

"Identity" is a set of ideas that a human hold of itself. A "table" has no identity of itself. It can only have an identity in the minds of humans. Anything beyond this seems idiotic to me. From the source given. It would seem that numerical identity is the quality of uniqueness...

When the questions asked are ridiculous, holding an opinion about their answer is silly. Your questions:" However the above seems to indicate that we can't, besides our intuitions how are we to gauge numerical identity? And if personal identity is unknown it is possible that a human being coul...

Para 1. The old chestnut of the solipsistic perception. So what? Para 2. You've said nothing here- Try and parse it. Since you've framed it in the object/subject analysis. What makes you think "USA" is part of the real world, and not just a collection of subjective ideas loosely shared by...

You've launched into this question without ever bothering to define your terms. But you seem to be making a primitive fundamental error; objective good, subjective bad for which you have no warrant. I'm not even sure if the object subject distinction is important here. I think it likely that the na...

An object has no persistence conditions beyond those ascribed to it by the observer of it. In a strictly physical sense an "object" is only definable in the language of its changes and since the "self" is first and foremost a physical entity the same truth must be applicable. I ...

It seems like the whole of personal identity philosophy consists of relating our intuitions to thought experiments. To challenge my theory of personal identity I am given a thought experiment which supposedly separates 'myself' from my definition of myself, however it is always possible to bite the ...

Recently I have been wracked by global scepticism, are we brains in vats, were the world and all our memories created last Thursday etc. I found that with the use of certain logical tools like Ockham's razor and abductive reasoning that I could dispel some of these sceptical doubts. But how do I kno...