Skip to content
Carmelics
TopicsThinkersChangesContributorsLoading account…

    Carmelics

    A reasoning platform. Break down any belief into clear reasons, explore both sides, and weigh the evidence honestly.

    Navigate

    • Topics
    • Search
    • Recent Changes
    • Contribute
    • How It Works
    • Glossary
    • Thinkers
    • Contributors
    • About
    • Statistics
    • Terms
    • Privacy

    Database

    Statements
    —
    Perspectives
    —
    Topics
    —

    Press ? for keyboard shortcuts

    LoyalLoyalJusticeJustice
    Made withinDC&Austin
    Statements
    321,452
    Perspectives
    108,905
    Topics
    42
    Home/Original/inverse
    See Original
    Inverse View

    It is not the case that Subjective consciousness cannot reflect things as they are in themselves, but only as they appear when schematized according to subjective categories.

    ?Set your confidence on the premises below to see your aggregate.

    Reasons For

    2 perspectives
    Reason for 1 of 2
    ?
    • 1.McDowell argues in Mind and World that conceptual capacities are not distorting filters but the very medium through which reality is rationally disclosed to conscious beings.
      ?

      Think about whether this reason is strong or weak

    • 2.If the categories through which we experience the world are themselves shaped by engagement with that world, the distinction between appearance and thing-in-itself loses its epistemic force.
      ?

      Think about whether this reason is strong or weak

    • 3.Sellars' critique of the Myth of the Given shows that rejecting raw unconceptualized data does not entail that conceptualized experience fails to track mind-independent reality.
      ?

      Think about whether this reason is strong or weak

    Reason for 2 of 2
    ?
    • 1.Husserl's phenomenological method demonstrates that intentional consciousness can disclose the essential structures of phenomena as they genuinely are, not merely as subjectively distorted.
      ?

      Think about whether this reason is strong or weak

    • 2.If categorial intuition grants direct access to ideal objects like logical truths, then at least some conscious acts transcend subjective schematization and reach mind-independent structures.
      ?

      Think about whether this reason is strong or weak

    Reasons Against

    1 perspective
    Reason against
    ?
    • 1.Kant demonstrated that the subjective field of consciousness has a crucial limit.
      ?

      Think about whether this reason is strong or weak

    • 2.The subjective field of consciousness schematizes experience according to subjective categories rather than apprehending things in themselves.
      ?

      Think about whether this reason is strong or weak

    Next step

    Based on where you are in your exploration

    Strongest counterpoint
    Explore the most compelling reason on the other side.