I agree. There's no need for us to become judgemental Kants. — John Doe

:grin:

I'm probably more like how Ariston described Arcesilaus (ch. 33, book 1 of the "Outlines"):

"And this was why Ariston described him as "Plato the head of him, Pyrrho the tail, in the midst Diodorus"; because he employed the dialectic of Diodorus, although he was actually a Platonist."

... Only with different folks. So:

Brentano the head of me, Sextus Empiricus the tail, in the midst Cicero and Quintilian. Well, as far as western philosophy is concerned. With eastern philosophy, it's mostly neo-daoism.

Let's hack the simulation and break out into base reality.