CPI vs OD
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Michael Eldred wrote:
>Joseph Polanik
>>Michael Eldred wrote:
>>>Joseph Polanik
>>>>the CPI is a more fundamental starting point than the OD. one begins
>>>>to construct the OD in the attempt to answer ‘what am I?’
>>>ME: The sense of “more fundamental” here is that of “given to
>>>experience”, but it is precisely the task of philosophy to ask for
>>>the presuppositions for this givenness, i.e. not to take it for
>>>granted. And as I’ve said before, your setting up an opposition
>>>between CPI and OD is SPURIOUS because the latter is neither an axiom
>>>nor a starting-point, but has to be first brought to light by
>>>questioning the presuppositions for our experience,
>>the CPI is not an axiom. it is a statement. as a starting point, it is
>>prior to the OD — which is not a starting point.
>ME: I used the word “axiom” following your own usage. When you
>postulate a purportedly undeniable starting-point, you are positing an
>axiom, aren’t you?
I postulate Axiom 0 as an axiom because it is the starting point for a
process of deductive reasoning in the manner in which the postulates of
geometry are the starting point for a process of deductive reasoning.
the CPI is neither an axiom in that sense, nor a starting point in that
sense; and, any opposition you see between the CPI and the OD on that
basis is completely spurious.
both are findings discovered by bringing to light — by uncovering what
was previously covered up; and, both can become a base from which
further philosophical inquiry may proceed. although ’starting point’ is
the more traditional term, I personally prefer the term ‘turning point’
— something may conclude and something else may start at each ‘turn’.
in this sense, both the CPI and the OD are turning points.
in any case, having found the OD, the process of uncovering, of bringing
to light, can continue until the CPI is found.
the CPI is ontologically prior to the OD, which refers to beings AS
beings, because it is prior to the designation of ‘being’ as the root
predicate.
do you deny that the CPI is ontologically prior to the OD?
Joe
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