Heidegger

New section added to Chapter 1 of Dissertation:
PHILOSOPHY AND THE REIFICATION OF THE UNREAL
1. 9 The Conceptual Existentialisation of Sentential Subjects.
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Reifications - like biological entozoa are gut-enculturations which are not
necessarily reliant upon nor benignly disposed to the welfare of their
hosts.
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Sincerely,
Jud Evans.
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*Common […]

Jud,
I have read your essay on the classification of predicates and have the
following comments.
you have pointed out that some statements that have the form of
statements of predication are statements about the experiencer. ‘that
perfume smells good’ is not so much a statement attributing a property
‘good-smelling’ to the perfume as it is a statement describing the […]

Jud:
Below is a recently discovered letter to President George Washington
(returned without even the courtesy of a reply) by the uncompromising fighter
for the common people blind poet Edward Rushton in an attempt to rescue from
obscurity, , and to pay tribute to his indomitable spirit.”
EXPOSTULATORY LETTER
To
GEORGE WASHINGTON
Of Mount […]

MORE COMPELLING EVIDENCE OF THE NON-COPULATORITY OF /BE/
Copyright Jud Evans 2009.
There is no more suspect definitional cop-out in the history of linguistics
than the notorious description of the so-called copuletic variant of the
indicant *is* ( and its conjugates) as a special kind of verb to join two parts
of a sentence and to […]

michaelP wrote:
> Jan offers this:
>
>>> ‘Being-in-the-world’ and many other ontological properties, or
>>> existentialia in Heidegger’s vocabulary, are a priori, i.e always
>>> already, given to any phenomenological inquiry.
>
> Joe ob-jects:
>
>> that is precisely the scandal to which I object.
>
> Joe, briefly now, you say you ob-ject, which I hyphenate to show that you
> have set […]

In a message dated 2/20/2009 1:07:26 AM Eastern Standard Time,
michael at sandwich-de-sign.co.uk writes:
Jan offers this:
>>’Being-in-the-world’ and many other ontological properties, or
> >existentialia in Heidegger’s vocabulary, are a priori, i.e always
> >already, given to any phenomenological inquiry.
Joe ob-jects:
> that is precisely the scandal to which I object.
Joe, briefly now, you say you ob-ject, […]

Jan Straathof wrote:
>Joe wrote:
>>I agree that, according to Heidegger, ‘Being-in-the-world’ is an
>>ontological property.
>>I object because this definition is assumed up front. it is not the
>>conclusion of Heidegger’s phenomenological inquiry.
>In SuZ Heidegger writes that the ’scandal of philosophy’ was not that
>proofs as to the reality of the world […]

Jan offers this:
>>’Being-in-the-world’ and many other ontological properties, or
> >existentialia in Heidegger’s vocabulary, are a priori, i.e always
> >already, given to any phenomenological inquiry.
Joe ob-jects:
> that is precisely the scandal to which I object.
Joe, briefly now, you say you ob-ject, which I hyphenate to show that you
have set up the always already […]

The Be-Conjugate and Its Arguments
GEVANS613 at aol.com wrote:
>jpolanik@nc.rr.com writes:
>Joe: you are a little inconsistent in your definitions of ‘is’.
>sometimes you say that is (by itself?) points to the subject’s
>existential modality; but, at other times, you say define ‘is’ as a
>syntactic device that points to the predicate which describes or
[…]

Kant on Predicates
Hi Joe,
A few comments.
Kant considered the role of the predicate in a statement of predication; and,
found it necessary to classify predicates according to the dichotomy
determining / non-determining. as will be seen, this viewpoint can be applied too
simplistically.
Jud:
It is refreshing that he did not start by talking about ontological no-goers
like […]