Heidegger

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> From: heidegger-bounces at soca.ecu.edu.au [mailto:heidegger-
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> Sent: vrijdag 16 februari 2007 1:30
> To: heidegger at soca.ecu.edu.au
> Subject: Do Mentalisations Exist or Only He Who Thinks?
>
> Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius (480-524) was born to a distinguished
> family called the Anicii, near the end of the Roman Empire. When his……

Well, the answer of Heidegger to this challenge would be that his
phenomenology is totally outside the quarrel of the universals. He is
neither nominalist, nor conceptualist, nor realist, nor something like that.

> Boethius lays out the problem as follows: “Genera and species either exist
> and subsist or are formed by the understanding and by thought alone.”
> Genera
> and species are the Aristotelian terms relating to the classification of
> things. They are, at this point, interchangeable with universals. So
> Boethius
> effectively states that universals must either exist and have form, or
> they must
> be merely mental concepts.

False dilemma, says conceptualism.

> The problem is to determine which situation is
> the
> case. Boethius first turns to the argument against universals, which may
> be
> considered as follows:
>
> 1. Something that is common to many cannot be one

See how is he begging the question? He starts from a convenient assumption
in order to prove what he wants to prove.

Greetings,

Tudor

Posted on Friday, February 16th, 2007 at 2:05 pm
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