An Unprejudiced Inquiry into The Question of Being
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In a message dated 3/17/2008 8:27:16 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
crifasian at gmail.com writes:
Descartes himself answers such naive realism in the First Meditation.
There is no evidence of any “metaphenomenal reality,” since anything you
try to cite as evidence can be equally present when there is no such
metaphenomenal reality, such as when the same phenomenon is dreamed
Then better to speak of the epiphenomenal than the metaphenomenal. That is as
bad as the old Aristotelian habit of speaking of the metaphysical. Meta
simply indicates neither here nor there whereas Epi refers to “contingent to”, in
this case, the phenomenon. What is epi to a phenomenon indicates a dependance
on the phenomenon. One the other hand, since all dreams are
phenomenolological the reccurance of the dream *in actu* would be epiphenomonological. There is
a difference, of course, between what is phenomonalist (ontic) and
phenomenological qua ontological. If the suffix “ological” (the study of) is lost then
best step back and soak your head in the waters of illogical illusion. Being,
of course, is neither phenomenological or phenomenal because by logical
necessity self-predicating or tautological. This was understood by philosophers from
Parmenides to Kant. It broke down as a form of logic and (as the study of)
with the double-speak of Hegel’s dialectic by which the the necessary prime or
archai premise as a tautological given slips down so that the entire praxis of
the logic is tautological, as is the case with the analytic logic, as Kant
observed, and which became a further catastrophe when the dialectic analytic fell
into the hands of both Marx and Freud. In that case both the ontological and
the phenomenological collapsed as mere expressions of the euphemistolistic,
the semiotic, and the reading of tea leaves.
sincerely;
Bernard
Bernard
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