Frank wrote on Sep 3^rd, 2022 at 5:11pm:

Kant's apriori architecture obviously contained God.  So Buddhist  philosophy is a different (?) a-priori arcitecture? It doesn't sound very robust.

Ah! So THIS IS WHERE the interesting people of OzPol hang out.

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Did you know that the number 4 is designated as the BLACK HOLE number?

Think of any word, name, thing etc.

For e.g. the word ‘‘mathematics”, has eleven letters.

Now ‘eleven’ in turn has six letters.

‘Six’ has three letters.

‘Three’ has five letters.

‘Five’ has four letters.

And how many letters does ‘four’ have?

FOUR!

Think of any other word and you’ll arrive at the same dead end.

Frank wrote on Sep 3^rd, 2022 at 10:10pm:


I think I know why :

Quick recap (for context):

"The 18th-century German philosopher Immanuel Kant (1781) advocated a blend of rationalist and empiricist theories. Kant says, "Although all our cognition begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from [is caused by] experience." According to Kant, a priori cognition is transcendental, or based on the form of all possible experience, while a posteriori cognition is empirical, based on the content of experience."

That word transcendental can be confusing. Why? It has a couple of meanings.

"In philosophy, transcendence is the basic ground concept from the word's literal meaning (from Latin), of climbing or going beyond, albeit with varying connotations in its different historical and cultural stages. It includes philosophies, systems, and approaches that describe the fundamental structures of being, not as an ontology (theory of being), but as the framework of emergence and validation of knowledge of being."

"Religious definition - transcendence refers to the aspect of God's nature and power which is wholly independent of the material universe, beyond all physical laws. This is contrasted with immanence, where a god is said to be fully present in the physical world and thus accessible to creatures in various ways."

Frank wrote on Sep 3^rd, 2022 at 10:32pm:


I can't speak for our learned friend BUT I do recall that there is nothing at all obvious about Kant given his works were terribly translated across into English.

In fact that's the root cause of a lot of sore points re Kant.

(When I was studying for my BA at Sydney Uni we used to have massive arguments in philosophy lectures over Kant because we couldn't agree on whether he was a theist or not. It wasn't always clear. Why? The translations were problematic)

John_Taverner wrote on Sep 3^rd, 2022 at 9:48pm:

John_Taverner wrote on Sep 4^th, 2022 at 6:51am:

John_Taverner wrote on Sep 4^th, 2022 at 9:26am:



A certain Chinese encyclopedia called the Celestial Emporium of Benevolent Knowledge is said to divide animals into
(a) - those that belong to the Emperor,
(b) - embalmed ones,
(c) - those that are trained,
(d) - suckling pigs,
(e) - mermaids,
(f) - fabulous ones,
(g) - stray dogs,
(h) - those that are included in the present classification,
(i) - those that tremble as if they are mad,
(j) - innumerable ones,
(k) - those drawn with a very fine camelhair brush,
(l) - others,
(m) - those that have just broken a flower vase,
(n) - those that look like flies from a long way off.