Mr Nemo
Feb 8, 2022

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I agree with you about Russell’s somewhat off-kilter understanding of Kant’s distinction between intuitions & concepts. As per the neo-Kantians, Russell construed intuition as merely an epistemic supplement to concepts, judgments, & theoretical (especially mathematical) reasoning, not as contributing an irreducibly different kind of cognitive-semantic content to judgments/propositions, arguments, & theories. And that’s especially odd, because Russell himself deployed knowledge-by-acquaintance, as the cognitive-semantic equivalent of Kantian intuition, in a directly referential way that introduces individuals, properties, relations, & logical constants themselves into propositions, arguments, & theories….

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Mr Nemo
Mr Nemo

Written by Mr Nemo

Formerly Captain Nemo. A not-so-very-angry, but still unemployed, full-time philosopher-nobody.

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