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Kant didn't view the mind as a separate, non-physical substance. Nor does indirect realism. Where do you have this random obsession from? Phew. So the transcendental ego is a physical thing that transcends mere sense data, as is the mind that experiences mental representations of reality, rather th...

Now, answer this question: If there are no noumena, then of what are phenomena phenomena? Or consider this: If there are no things-in-themselves, then appearances are not appearances of things-in-themselves. Or try this: What does a transcendental ego transcend? You haven't begun to think criticall...

Here's VA's Kantian scenario. A bunch of transcendental egos sit around in illusory bodies, emitting illusory farts from the illusory decomposition in their illusory guts of a remarkably good but sadly illusory dinner, talking to each illusory other using illusory language, and coming to the illuso...

Here's VA's Kantian scenario. A bunch of transcendental egos sit around in illusory bodies, emitting illusory farts from the illusory decomposition in their illusory guts of a remarkably good but sadly illusory dinner, talking to each illusory other using illusory language, and coming to the illusor...

It is impossible for "things that just are the case" to exists as things-in-themselves... First there is no fixed mind-independent reality. Reality is always changing in relation to the human realization of reality. There is no mind independent reality-as-it-is... The antirealist [Kantian...

I googled the expression you quoted: "non-physical objects that represent the physical world", but got zero results. Source? Try reading. It's in the first paragraph I quoted above. All things are "physical" in that sense, our internal mental phenomena are also "physical&qu...

Fun fact, one has to de-realize reality before one can accuse realists of reifying reality. Ultimately, reification and de-realization are two sides of the same coin. Once we have this issue out of the way by neither reifying nor de-realizing reality, what remains is the question of direct vs indir...

It is impossible for "things that just are the case" to exists as things-in-themselves... First there is no fixed mind-independent reality. Reality is always changing in relation to the human realization of reality. There is no mind independent reality-as-it-is... The antirealist [Kantian...

Fun fact, one has to de-realize reality before one can accuse realists of reifying reality. Ultimately, reification and de-realization are two sides of the same coin. Once we have this issue out of the way by neither reifying nor de-realizing reality, what remains is the question of direct vs indir...

Here are four metaphysical assertions - assertions about reality. 1 We humans have to perceive, know and describe reality in human ways. 2 There is no reality beyond the ways we humans perceive, know and describe it. 3 Humans enable reality to emerge, then to be realized as real and then cognized, k...

VA thinks my version of his P1 - 'we humans have to perceive, know and describe reality in human ways' - misrepresents it. And he denies the conclusion 'therefore, humans generate facts'. Instead, it's a 'system' that takes in inputs and generates outputs - conditioned facts, within a framework. So...

The once majority realist views, 1- the earth is flat 2- the Sun revolves the Earth were based on an evolutionary default, i.e. primal and primitive. Copernicus exposed the ignorance of those who believe in 2. Those primal and primitive evolutionary defaulted that still persist at present by the ma...

VA thinks my version of his P1 - 'we humans have to perceive, know and describe reality in human ways' - misrepresents it. And he denies the conclusion 'therefore, humans generate facts'. Instead, it's a 'system' that takes in inputs and generates outputs - conditioned facts, within a framework. So ...

It seems you are wrong on the grounds that too many people agree with you, Peter. :) Maybe it's a rare case where intersubjective consensus doesn't work. :D The once majority realist views, 1- the earth is flat 2- the Sun revolves the Earth were based on an evolutionary default, i.e. primal and pri...

'Fact: a thing that [is known] to exist, or to have occurred, or to be true.' (Concise Oxford) I square-bracket 'is known', for two reasons. First, because expressions such as 'unknown facts', 'we need to establish the facts', 'we don't know all the facts about quantum reality', and so on, are coher...