Responding to IP...


Were we talking about Kant or pedants?
You were talking about Kant and I was talking about pedants.

Are pedants responsible for the suffering of the twentieth century.
Yes. To the degree that their pedancy distracted from the good which they could have been doing to advance the cause of human comprehension of purpose.

Kant was, by the way, 18th Century.
But his ideas lived and flowered in the 19th.

<<...impossible to like...without evolutionary function...>>

Oh?
Oh yes.

<<By likeing something, you give it meaning>>

Are you saying that meaning is a utile? (not rhetorical)

Absolutely.