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[tiresias2]

Metaphysics Metaphors
Metaphysic Metaphors
Metaphysi Metaphors
Metaphys Metaphor
Metaphy Metapho
Metaph

What do Metaphysics and Metaphors have in common? You guessed it-- Metaph. And a metaph is a unit of measurement for a bit of objective, real knowledge about the way the world is. Of course, a metaphysic and a metaphor both exceed their bounds

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[tiresias2]

I read the Critique a couple of years ago. It's just a pain in the ass, and I didn't do it with the fine comb required. Honestly, I don't find Kant very useful (not his ideas, but rather his system and the way he characterizes it-- he can't write). If my ideas overlap at all with his, I am content coming across them on my own, in my own way, with my own terminology. If Kant said it before me, then hopefully I can say it better. Someone needs to.

But I know my own system is not like Kant's, and that I will need to distinguish them. The problem is that I have no motivation to bother drudging through Kant's writings, trying to make sense of its obscurity, or in trying to phrase anything in his terminology, and in the language of his system. None of this is to say Kant is not profound and important. Rather, I'm just saying: I don't care. My system is better anyway :-).

Though, lately I have begun to wonder about similarities. For instance, I wonder in what ways my Metaphorical Objective is like Kant's Synthetic A Priori. Also, I'm trying to understand how Kant's transcendental idealism is like empirical realism, because I appeal to realism as well, but I am incredibly suspicious of the way this turns out for Kant...

transcendental idealism --> the minds that 'the world' has built

I find this characterization interesting, if it's correct. Though, I am more compelled to say that TI ---> 'the world' (in quotes) that the mind has built. I don't know though, there is no way to ever be certain with Kant, the writing and ways he categorizes things is so convoluted. But if you're correct, then I can see where I disagree with transcendental idealism. The world (no quotes) builds the mind.

I'm actually not clear to what extent the world (no quotes) is allowed for at all in Kant's system. That's what I've been trying to find out, in some discussions with those cronies in the philosophy community, but still can't get a clear answer.

But anyway, I don't really have a phone right now (I'm living in a disconnected little wooden shack on the Bay Area Delta), so you should give me your contact info for when you're in Frisco... you'll probably want to email that stuff-- tiresias2 at gmail dot com. Let me know :-)