The diversity of means of versioning in life (hydrogen, helium, L,b...) does not mean as far as the coincidence goes that goals of relieving mental discomfort need necessarily be the same in the same chance theory that any lump of particles might format phenomenologically (see Campbell p197 Foundations of Science, Probability and Knowledge "But the apparent difference may arise only from the fact that it is quite impossible to contemplate equally a large number of alternatives, I cannot avoid dividing them subconsciously into groups; the alternatives of which I am thinking before the trial occurs are these groups and not the individual results of the trials. What I am prepared to assert in such cases is that, if I name beforehand any one of the alternative events, that event will not occur as a result of a trial. The mere fact that I have thought it distinguishes it in my mind from the rest; the alternatives that I am considering are, on the one hand, this particular event and, on the other, the group consisting of all the remainder. This group, taken as a whole, has a very great probability and if this highly probable event occurs, I shall expereince no suprise; but my suprise will be great indeed if the specially distinguished event occurs."
See Also Two places IN Kant's Critique of Judgement "
"The being of this kind is man, but man considered as noumenon, the only natural being in which we can recognize, on the side of its peculiar constitution, a supersensible faculty (freedom) and also the law of causality..."&
"The formal condition under which nature can alone attain this its final design is that arrangement of men's relations to one another by which lawful authority in a whole, which we call a
civil community, is opposed to the abuse of their conflicting freedoms; only in this can the greatest development of natural capacities take place. For this also there would be requisite - if men were clever enough to find it out and wise enough to submit themselves voluntarily to its constraint - a
cosmopolitan whole, i.e. a system of all states that are in danger of acting injuriously upon one another. Zum ewigen Frieden (1795). Failing this...to the highest possible pitch." at METHODOLOGY OF THE TELEOLOGICAL JUDGEMENT.
all states that are in danger of acting injuriously upon one another. {These views are set forth by Kant more fully in the essay
Zum ewigen Frieden (1795).} Failing this...to the highest possible pitch." at METHODOLOGY OF THE TELEOLOGICAL JUDGEMENT.
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