Heidegger

Cologne 30-Sep-2007

- Nurse, what’s the latest on Mr Evans’ condition?

- I wheeled him into the sun for half an hour, as you told me to do. But
the light seems to have affected his mind. And his obsession with his
addle and suchlike has worsened

- Would you say, this is a coprophilic mind on the slipway to dementia?
What are the signs of his addle-headedness?

- He seems to have been blinded by the light of obviousness. Keeps
muttering something about “abstractions are an existential modality, but
they don’t exist” and insisting, “I have no mind, nurse, I have an
individuate, ideating, abstracting brain”.

- Blinded by the light of obviousness!? How can you tell?

- He keeps claiming that Plato was merely stating the obvious when he
pointed out that to “say” is to “say something”. He seems quite upset
about that. Calls him a “damned con-man and liar” and has written a
letter to the Minister for Education demanding that Ancient Greek no
longer be taught in any school in the land.

- Then perhaps it’s better, after all, to humour him. Keep him
straight-jacketed with his face to the wall so he can watch the soothing
shadows of the trees swaying before his window. He seems to enjoy
guessing which way they’ll sway next, and he tilts his head to and fro
with pleasure, singing “la la” all the while. And whatever you do, don’t
take away that little medal with “Brittannia empirica” on it he likes to
pin to his pyjama jacket.

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GEVANS613 at aol.com schrieb Sun, 30 Sep 2007 12:45:54 EDT:

> In a message dated 30/09/2007 13:01:01 GMT Standard Time,
> artefact at 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/p… 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 SENTENCEYou 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.freewebspac… nuclear war
> all men are cremated equal.” Dexter Gordon

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