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First Cause Argument
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RE: First Cause Argument
(April 23, 2014 at 5:43 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: If causation becomes a matter of pure induction then a knowing subject is needed to recognize the pattern.

Not according to Deleuze who claims 'experience exceeds our concepts by presenting novelty, and this raw experience of difference actualises an idea.'

Deleuze's 'transcendental empiricism' (his own words) would seem to suggest an alternative to the Kantian philosophy of transcendental idealism which relies on a 'knowing subject'.

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First Cause Argument - by super spidey man - April 21, 2014 at 11:03 am
RE: First Cause Argument - by Whateverist - April 21, 2014 at 11:10 am
RE: First Cause Argument - by Tonus - April 21, 2014 at 12:11 pm
RE: First Cause Argument - by Silver - April 21, 2014 at 11:15 am
RE: First Cause Argument - by downbeatplumb - April 21, 2014 at 11:17 am
RE: First Cause Argument - by Jackalope - April 21, 2014 at 11:48 am
RE: First Cause Argument - by pocaracas - April 21, 2014 at 11:56 am
RE: First Cause Argument - by Jackalope - April 21, 2014 at 11:59 am
RE: First Cause Argument - by Minimalist - April 21, 2014 at 12:01 pm
RE: First Cause Argument - by JesusHChrist - April 21, 2014 at 12:18 pm
First Cause Argument - by Rampant.A.I. - April 21, 2014 at 12:28 pm
RE: First Cause Argument - by RobbyPants - April 21, 2014 at 2:32 pm
RE: First Cause Argument - by MindForgedManacle - April 22, 2014 at 6:13 pm
RE: First Cause Argument - by Neo-Scholastic - April 23, 2014 at 10:22 am
RE: First Cause Argument - by MindForgedManacle - April 23, 2014 at 12:42 pm
RE: First Cause Argument - by Neo-Scholastic - April 23, 2014 at 5:43 pm
RE: First Cause Argument - by Whateverist - April 23, 2014 at 9:35 pm
RE: First Cause Argument - by Neo-Scholastic - April 24, 2014 at 9:28 am
RE: First Cause Argument - by Whateverist - April 24, 2014 at 10:01 am
RE: First Cause Argument - by ManMachine - April 24, 2014 at 7:21 am
RE: First Cause Argument - by Cato - April 23, 2014 at 12:48 pm
RE: First Cause Argument - by Simon Moon - April 23, 2014 at 12:49 pm
RE: First Cause Argument - by Cato - April 23, 2014 at 1:04 pm
RE: First Cause Argument - by ManMachine - April 23, 2014 at 8:20 pm
RE: First Cause Argument - by Godlesspanther - April 23, 2014 at 10:21 pm
RE: First Cause Argument - by ManMachine - April 24, 2014 at 6:16 am
RE: First Cause Argument - by Ryantology - April 24, 2014 at 7:01 am

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