EvC Forum: Immanuel Kant

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Originally posted by Mister Pamboli:
But he rejected that any influence of a designing God could be seen in this because it was not objectively defensible. "No synthetical proposition can be made with
reference to what is beyond sensory perception."

Sounds like a logical positivist there....

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Message 8 of 46 (7456)
03-20-2002 11:40 PM

Reply to: Message 6 by Mister Pamboli
03-19-2002 4:56 PM

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Originally posted by Mister Pamboli:
Ironically, yes in a way. Kant started the process of restricting the definition of reason and to what it can be applied which the Logical Positivists took to an extreme position.

I thought that can of worms was opened by the British empiricists, Locke, Hume et al.....

Didn`t Kant attempt to "unify" (spot the physicist we`re obsessed with unified theories) British empiricism and Continental rationalism (Descartes and Co.) forming German Idealism?

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03-21-2002 10:51 AM

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03-21-2002 2:14 AM

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Originally posted by LudvanB:

Actually,Jefferson was the father of American secularism and everyone should really thank him for it...look at Saudi Arabia,Afghanistan in the last 5 years and a few other muslim country or to Europe from the 10th to the 16th century to see the result of a church driven state.

Really I thought it was John Locke who came up with the whole concept of equality and "inalienable" rights of man concepts that were used in the bloodless (or Glorious) revolution in the 1680`s in England...

Surely given that Jefferson was paraphrasing Locke that makes Locke the Grandfather of American secularism.....

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03-21-2002 9:41 PM

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03-21-2002 4:14 PM

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Originally posted by minnemooseus:
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Why thanks Moose....

Of course your post was a little drab, maybe it needed some color (spelling for Moose)

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03-22-2002 1:21 PM

Reply to: Message 16 by Minnemooseus
03-22-2002 1:04 AM

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Originally posted by minnemooseus:
I'm not familiar with Bablefish...

This may be what Mr P means...

http://babelfish.altavista.com

On another note I think Babelfish are from Douglas Adams Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy series....

They translate speech hence the name Babel (as in tower of) fish...

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