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RE: Transcendental Knowledge?
October 17, 2014 at 12:15 pm
(October 17, 2014 at 12:12 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: I think it refers to universal knowledge that spans over and above knowledge of particulars. Pick-up?
What do you mean by "knowledge of particulars"?
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RE: Transcendental Knowledge?
October 17, 2014 at 12:18 pm
(October 17, 2014 at 12:13 pm)Rhythm Wrote: (October 17, 2014 at 11:44 am)ChadWooters Wrote: Just because we only know the world by means of the senses does not mean that you cannot reason about the parts of reality that exist apart from the senses. Good luck with "reasoning" about anything that exists "apart from the senses". Why would you assume that reason even applies to things "apart from the senses"? a^2 +b^2 = c^2. The theorem remains true apart from any particular set of sensible bodies. It would be true even if humans never existed.
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RE: Transcendental Knowledge?
October 17, 2014 at 12:19 pm
Kant would argue that Mathematics is necessary and universal, but that the knowledge gleaned from it is tacked on. He categorized it as synthetic a priori. Now, which one of you have I agreed with and which one have I challenged. Haha I'm way in over my head here.
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RE: Transcendental Knowledge?
October 17, 2014 at 12:21 pm
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Geometry Chad........? I don't think that you thought this through very well. Are the rules of geometry,, in your estimation, something doesn't require one of your sense to establish or reason about? What is a triangle? What is this thing we call a triangle that necessitates a mathematical description or a set of rules regarding their arrangement? A shape, a relationship between boundaries and space.
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RE: Transcendental Knowledge?
October 17, 2014 at 12:23 pm
(October 17, 2014 at 12:15 pm)One Above All Wrote: (October 17, 2014 at 12:12 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: I think it refers to universal knowledge that spans over and above knowledge of particulars. Pick-up?
What do you mean by "knowledge of particulars"? In everyday life triangles come is very many different instances, yet all embody the triangular. The idea of triangular transcends any particular embodied triangle.
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RE: Transcendental Knowledge?
October 17, 2014 at 12:25 pm
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The idea is -defined- by those particular "triangles". Its descriptive.
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RE: Transcendental Knowledge?
October 17, 2014 at 12:29 pm
(October 17, 2014 at 12:23 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: (October 17, 2014 at 12:15 pm)One Above All Wrote: What do you mean by "knowledge of particulars"? In everyday life triangles come is very many different instances, yet all embody the triangular. The idea of triangular transcends any particular embodied triangle.
Are you trying to say that definitions transcend what they define?
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RE: Transcendental Knowledge?
October 17, 2014 at 12:34 pm
(October 17, 2014 at 12:14 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: (October 17, 2014 at 12:11 pm)Chas Wrote: No, mathematics is invented. Then I challenge you to invent your own personal form of mathematics.
It is done all the time by mathematicians. Create some axioms, some rules of inference, and boom! new formal system with new theorems and new truths.
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RE: Transcendental Knowledge?
October 17, 2014 at 12:37 pm
(October 17, 2014 at 12:29 pm)One Above All Wrote: (October 17, 2014 at 12:23 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: In everyday life triangles come is very many different instances, yet all embody the triangular. The idea of triangular transcends any particular embodied triangle.
Are you trying to say that definitions transcend what they define? Not exactly, definitions come from our intellect trying to understand that from which a particular instance of triangle gets its triangularity.
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RE: Transcendental Knowledge?
October 17, 2014 at 12:38 pm
(October 17, 2014 at 12:37 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: Not exactly, definitions come from our intellect trying to understand that from which a particular instance of triangle gets its triangularity.
Then say what you mean in clear terms, because that was my best guess as to what the fuck you were talking about. 
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