Heidegger

In a message dated 4/4/2008 7:16:30 PM Eastern Daylight Time, Bernx writes:

In a message dated 4/3/2008 7:37:14 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
GEVANS613 at aol.com writes:

The concept of *Being* and *Nothing* has corrupted philosophy, and where
corruption is found in philosophy there is usually an oaf called Plato behind
it. The word *nothing* has wormed its way into human communication causing
ontological havoc. *There is *nothing* in the fridge* suggests that a heteronic
version of some [food] can be said to be in the empty fridge. *I have *nothing*
to say,* suggests the person is in possession of something called *nothing*
which they are either unwilling or unable to divulge. Heidegger, whose
naivity never ceases to astonish me even said *nothing nothings* [or words to that
effect] childishly comparing and trying to pass off as *philosophical* a
parlour-game play-on-words which compares *nothing nothings* to genuine
noun-verb combinatorial statements, such as *flowers flower* or *pins pin,* cutters
cut* *cooks cook* etc.

Jud

Hello, Jud, Old Beein;
Whatever some call “no-thing,” nihilo, Zip, Zero, et al, or whatever precedes
the One of something, others, eg., Aristotle, predicates as *Potentia.* In
this he has the agreement of the Neils Bohr Copenhagen School of Quantum
Mechanics, especially that of
Werner Heisenberg who notes:

“The early Greek philosophy from Thales to the atomists, in seeking a
unifying principle in the universal mutability of all things, had formed the concept
of cosmic matter, a world, a world substance which experiences all these
transformations, from which all individual things arise and into which they again
become transformed. This matter was partly identified with some special matter
like air or fire; only partly, because it had no other attribute but to be the
material from which all things are made.
Later, in the philosophy of Aristotle, matter was thought of in the relation
between form and matter. All that we perceive in the world of phenomena around
us is formed matter. Matter is in itself not a reality but only a
possibility, a ‘potentia’; it exists only by means of form. In the natural process the
‘essence’ as Aristotle calls it, passes over from mere possibility through form
into actuality. The matter of Aristotle is certainly not a specific matter
like water or air; nor is it simply empty space; it is a kind of indefinite
corporeal substratum, embodying the possibility of passing over into actuality by
means of the form. The typical examples of this relation between matter and
form in the philosophy are the biological processes in which matter is formed to
become the living organism, and the building and forming activity of man.”
( Werner Heisenberg; *Physics and Philosophy: The Revolution in Modern
Science,* Ruskin House, George Allen & Unwin LTD, Museum Street, London, pge., 129).

Sincerely;
Bernard

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