Heidegger

States Joe:

> Axis of Error: AIT and Heideggerianism Share a Place

Well, Joe, not sure about AIT (essentially a form of linguistic science, not
so much philosophy, whereas Heidegger is essential(ly) philosophy and
although sometimes centred upon language has little to do with linguistics),
but if instead we look at Heidegger’s thinking and the thinking of the
s(up)porting of a certain version of eliminativism sported on this list,
then indeed there can be seen something in common:

they each attempt to seriously bespeak the unspeakable (be-ing {of beings}
and the uniquely unique {of the individuate materiality of objects, or
something like that} respectively); no human language can completely
complete such enterprises;

the difference lies in the journeying and pathmaking made towards their
terminals and respective analytic silence(s):

the one short, dogmatic and repetitive(ly single-tracked)

the other inexhaustively luxuriously long (perhaps everlastingly),
questioning and rich with brilliant insights along the long longing way

the one in a rush, focussing on a result, the other relaxedly focussed on
the journeying

although they both analytically terminate in silence in their attempts to
say the ineffable, the one is interminally burdened and weighted by the
silence (the abyssal leap) of its enterprise throughout in a knowing
fashion, the other is oblivious of its impossibility and impass-ability
[sic]

that’s all folks

and sorry, Joe, just using your subject title for my two-farthings-worth on
this, not bothering to discuss your thesis (basically because of my view
that Heidegger does not engage in {although sometimes, with…} linguistics
{although very much with language-qua-language}, so AIT & Heidegger is chalk
& cheese for me)

regards

michaelP

Posted on Sunday, February 8th, 2009 at 7:00 am
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