Can anyone help with this argument reconstruction?
  • KantDane21
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    The following argument is in Paul Guyer's text "Kant" (Routledge). I am trying to reconstruct it, yet am not sure the of the form of the argument.

    If whenever one experiences appearances, one does not gain knowledge of the noumenon, and yet (in) one’s awareness of one’s own individual will does gain knowledge of the noumenon, then one’s awareness of one’s own individual will could not be the experiencing of appearances.

    A- one experiences appearances B- one gains knowledge of the noumenon C- awareness of one’s own individual will

    Thus:

    If A then not B If C then B C then not A

    Yet the above is not a valid argument form (as far as I can determine).
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  • bongo fury
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    If A then not B
    If C then B
    [If] C then not A     — KantDane21

    A, B, C ---> P, M, S

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  • KantDane21
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    A, B, C ---> P, M, S — bongo fury

    that's great! did you use an app??
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  • bongo fury
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    ↪KantDane21
    No, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syllogism?wprov=sfla1 has a list
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  • KantDane21
    47
    something like:
    No experience of appearance results in knowledge of noumenon
    All awareness of will is knowledge of noumenon
    thus,
    No awareness of will is experience of appearance.
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  • bongo fury
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    Yes, your parsing seemed right.
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  • alan1000
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    bongo fury, please don't fall into the habit of relying on Wikipedia to support your arguments! Its contributors are, by and large, utterly unfamiliar with the philosophy of mathematics. Its article listing the arguments to prove that 0 is an even number is an intellectual fog from beginning to end.
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