Kyle Foster

I have the same sentiments with Laas' "Kant’s Analogies of Experience."

Nonsense of the highest order, and just another example of some tech-billionaire wanting you to know how smart they are because they believe they could've done physics instead.

None of these words mean anything

It's actually a lot more simple than this. A "positivist" is any person greater than 0.

"The history of philosophy contains... controversies, which, having come to a wrong decision and premature conclusion under some unfavorable circumstances... deserve to be subjected to a revision in the interest of truth and justice."

Laas couldn't say it any better

Oh no, I am becoming a Herbartian this summer

Reading this made me feel completely heartbroken. But I have to say I also do feel lucky, I feel lucky to have lived the life I lived where I could encounter your work and ideas. Thank you for everything, and peace and love to you and your family.

Big news for fans of Aristotle.

Coil – The Ape of Naples

Best comeback albums:

Portishead — Third

A Tribe Called Quest — We Got It from Here... Thank You 4 Your Service

Digging holes like a mole

The older I get, the more I like people just having fun.

Everything was going fine until concepts became things

Nothing sums up my past year more than this quote.

"I immersed myself, as far as was possible for me, in Laasian positivism, to which even some skeptical elements in myself responded." — Paul Natorp (1921)

I see positivism really just as a way to filter through *nonsense,* a method to identify all the squirrelly ideas on the marketplace.

It’s unfortunate most think positivism is some kind of prescription for reducing the world to a fairly predictable and mundane place. It isn’t that *at all.* The *truly* weird survives it.

"to catch the eel of science by its tail" is now my favourite Kant phrase.

We think and represent, therefore, we are; and we represent because we perceived.

The Relative Necessity of the Kantian A Priori: Cohen, Cassirer, and Reichenbach YouTube video by Uni Wien live

7th Arthur Pap Lecture

Francesca Biagioli (University of Turin)
The Relative Necessity of the Kantian A Priori: Cohen, Cassirer, and Reichenbach

Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 5 pm CET, Vienna

The event will also be streamed via YouTube: www.youtube.com/live/4SwyYaZ...

If it can't be found laying about, dig it up. That's the basic premise behind mining, and my Lebensphilosophie.

idealisirend, leibnizianisirend, nichtkantianisirend, realisirend, eleatisirend, scholastisirend, herbartianisirend, wolfianisirende, schellingianisirend, kritisirend, schopenhauerianisirend, Helmholtzianisirend, lotzeanisirend and thought he was addle-brained

Though imagine a guy reviewing your work finding every opportunity he can to write (sic!?), because that’s Windelband. Dood saw Laas make up a new adjectives like heraklitisirend, platonisirend, kantianisirend, aristotelisirend, pythagoraisirend, christianisirend, rationalisirend...

Laas' hatred for Windelband is hilarious. He immediately goes on to say: "It is all the more surprising when recently a Kantian with such conscious agreement with the master, like Professor Windelband... now represents the view that even the logical laws are synthetic."

This is, by far, the most fun book to translate.
"What we are fighting against is the opinion of those who... attribute these norms and ideals to a bloated so-called reason; who believe they have completed their philosophical business with them when they pronounce their magical a priori upon them."

This is awesome! may I join?

Mill’s axiom of the uniformity of nature’s course is not only unprovable but also contradicts the facts. The world becomes ever more complex; nature progresses. — Ernst Laas

I rec colored Post-it tabs for finding certain ideas instead of highlighting. If I highlight, then generally it’s yellow for premises, pink for conclusion, and blue for the writer objecting/refuting another philosopher.

If I sit still enough, and engage as little as possible; I’ll look like I understand everything being discussed
- the guy who sits beside me in my Kant class