Heidegger

Bernx at aol.com wrote:

> Yes, that is true, Joe, but no sooner name a thing than it is
> abstracted. Reification amounts to an unmediated direct relation of
> sensation to an object and occurs only when the object is unknown or not
> understood. That is why I call it primitive in the sense that it amounts
> to a magical relation to the thing. Accordingly, the ability to abstract
> is in polarity to thingification in the same relation that
> unconsciousness is to consciousness.
> Bernard

Are you saying that abstraction corresponds to unconsciousness and
thingification corresponds to consciousness?

Joe

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Philosophy is, after all, done ultimately in the first person for the
first person. — H-N Castaneda

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Posted on Sunday, September 14th, 2008 at 6:01 am
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