Heidegger

In a message dated 30/09/2007 13:01:01 GMT Standard Time,
_artefact at t-online.de_ (mailto:artefact@t-online.de) writes: Cologne 30-Sep-2007

Jud:
Abstractions are abstractions in that they are merely an existential mode of
the abstractor. (See below for context .)

ME:
So abstractions “are merely an existential mode of the abstractor”
(we shall forgive the horrendous grammar). They “are”, but they don’t exist,
right?

Jud:
My grammar is perfect, *are* and *an* are employed correctly in the above
example. You keep making constant mistakes - time to get a grip on yourself if
you wish your doctorate to be taken seriously for much longer. Check my
grammar out with any passing academic or grammar [sic] school child who [unlike
you] recognises the correct parts of speech when properly parsing a English
sentence. Abstractions no more exist than the movement of your clenching and
unclenching sphincter exists, when you plop your dirt down on this list from a
great height. It is the be-sphinctered Aethelkraut that exists ( vide the
turd-besplatted list as evidence of his IMPURE PRESENCE) - not the anal
activity of his musculus sphincter ani turd-clipper during your ad hominemic
bum-bombing raids on the list.

Your peculiar psychotic fixation seems to be centered on a confusion with
the existential import of the conjugate *is* and *are.*

Your relationship with Plato puts me in mind of the musical painting of the
Hartmann’s oil painting of the *Two Jews* in Mussorgsky’s *Pictures at an
Exhibition,* inspired by the paintings of his friend and artist Victor Hartmann.

This is from the Programme Notes:
_http://www.classicalnotes.net/classics/pix.html_  http://www.classicalnotes..net/classics/…)
The ten pictures Mussorgsky depicts are: a gnome-shaped nutcracker; a
troubadour plaintively singing outside an ancient castle; children vigorously
playing and quarrelling in a park; a lumbering wooden Polish ox-cart; [the bydlo]
a ballet of peeping chicks as they hatch from their shells; an argument
between two Warsaw Jews, one haughty and vain, the other poor and garrulous;
shrill women and vendors in a crowded marketplace; the eerie, echoing gloom of
catacombs beneath Paris; the hut of a grotesque bone-chomping witch of Russian
folk-lore; and a design for an entrance gate to Kiev. Mussorgsky clearly chose
these subjects for the variety of moods they invoked and the opportunities
they presented for a wide array of musical depictions.

Jud again:
They are two likable fellows. One a big fat, wealthy fellow, successful,
intelligent and sure of himself, (Plato) who strides purposefully around the
art gallery with ponderous steps. His leit motif is provided by the tuba and
others of the brass section. The little parasitical Jew, (Aethelred)
indicated by a busy little trilling piccolo follows skipping behind on his better’s
coat-tails, constantly whimpering, cajoling, importuning, begging for
favours and slavishly copying each action of his benefactor (like you do with
Plato) bereft of any self generated initiative or ideas of his own. - a
diminutive clone-manqué.

The tune comes into my head whenever I read your predictably derivative
stuff - as persistent and pertinacious as the theme music from a second-class
soap opera, replete with the same depressive greyness and lack of hope that the
opening bars of *Coronation Street* engender.

The BE - word has a number of meanings - you desperately need to make
yourself aware of the differences for your ignorance in the matter is the source of
much embarrassment. In English the words [forgetting about the *is* of
identity* ] *is* and *are* can refer to what linguists call: *pure presence* and
*existential modality.*

(A) PURE PRESENCE. The *is* of pure presence simple means that the subject
[say a hair pin] exists in the world. *The hair pin is.* Apart from the fact
that it is named *hair pin,* nothing more is said of it at that stage. We all
know that a hair pin could not exist as a hair pin if it did not enjoy other
existential modes. It has GOT to be made of same material, it has GOT to be a
certain shape and size (it wouldn’t work as a hair pin if it were spherical
and the size of a football for example. ] As for the rest of its modes of
existing, like God’s *I am* on the mountaintop, you need to mentally add [if you
so desire] any other existential modalities that you wish to, based upon your
a priori knowledge of other normal or usual existential aspects of Gods or
hair pins. In in other words the *is, are, were and [with caveats] the will
be* pure presence ONLY refers to the fact that as the Swedes put it *it can be
found in the world.) The ever-organised Swedes have developed a special verb
to make this existential *ontological difference* more obvious.

The verb *att finnas* in Swedish means to exist or to be, but in the sense
of *can be found.* Sometimes the English use a similar mechanism in such
phrases as perhaps in a hotel reception a sign might say:

*Maps of the Town Centre CAN BE FOUND in the revolving display stand in the
foyer.* The semantic import of which is of course that the PURE PRESENCE of
the maps is being asserted.

THE EXISTENTIAL MODALITY. This meaning of *is, are, were and [with caveats]
the will be* refers to THE WAY, MODE OR MANNER in which objects exist, which
extends the SIMPLE NAMED PRESENCE that the bare nominalisation provided (God
or *hat pin) the predications that accompany this type of BE -word tell us
more information once the object’s PRESENCE HAS BEEN ESTABLISHED. Thus
abstractions “are merely an existential mode of the abstractor.” Here the a priori of
*the abstractor* is already been established [humans have been abstracting
for thousands of years] and the abstraction of *abstractions* is indicated by
the
*ARE* indicator of existential modality because such activity is an
existential modality of the human involved.

For some bizarre reason you regularly confuse the BE [is and are] of PURE
PRESENCE with the BE [is and are] of EXISTENTIAL MODALITY, THE BIZAARE
ONTOLOGICAL OUTCOME OF WHICH IS THE RENDER THE MEANING OF A SENTENCE

You are slowly latching on - very slowly as everyone can see. Aethelkraut:

That’s why I say, “The ElMatist is caught in imbecile self-contradiction,
and thus self-refutation, because, although he asserts endlessly that
abstractions do not exist at all, he wilfully continues to speak anyway (vacuously, in
his own terms), employing all the abstractions whose existence he has
supposedly refuted.” Jud: I refute the existence of the pink elephants and giant
spiders that the habitual drunk thinks he sees. In a similar way I refute the
abstractions and reifications that those poor sods habitually addicted to
metaphysics. Psychologically there is not a lot of difference betwixt someone
main-lining on heroine and somebody main lining on metaphysics - both suffer
from a similar disease of reality-disconnectedness.

Jud: Well, at least I have high-lighted your abysmal lack of understanding
of the presence/existential mode *ontological difference* a semantic given
which the liar Heidegger tried to pretend specialised in and pathetically tried
to pervert with his pathetic dasein con trick.

I am of course not surprised that you put your tail between your legs and
ran away from the Platonist lies which tried to accuse Parmenides of a putative
monism - the concepts of others - not his. One can effect all of the same
common human operations of predication and the instantiation of useful
abstractive fictions under the Parmenidean ontology as of any other. What it DOES
exclude as childish non-sense is the instantiation of *to mae on* on the basis of
some primitive, dreamed up holeronic or *other* fantasy or philosophical
pink elephant similar to an alcoholic or a heroine addict doing cold turkey..

My advice? When the sweats and the shaking start pick up a copy of Plato’s
works and inject about a chapter into your rapidly desiccating brain.

The convulsive moments and uncontrolled eye-rolling should abate quite
quickly. As time goes by you will need larger and larger doses of metaphine and
heidyfil. Your local librarian will prescribe these drugs on the production of
the special *Metaphysisch Körperbehindert*
(Metaphysically Disabled)certificate which your doctor will give you. Try to
keep your condition unknown to the police, for once a Metaphysisch
Körperbehindert person gets on their register or data-base, they will drag you in
after every incident, and like Nietzsche or Heidegger they will find some way of
making sure that you are locked up permanently.

Regards,

Jud Personal Website:
_http://evans-experientialism.freewebspace.com/index.htm_  http://evans-experientialism.freewebspac…)

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