Heidegger

Cologne 26-May-2008

Joseph Polanik schrieb Sun, 25 May 2008 08:12:52 -0400:

> michaelP wrote:
>
> >To those that think in an overly linear fashion (e.g., one that is
> >saturated with mathematical logic and other technics), Heidegger’s
> >disdain for squaring the circle, dissolving paradoxes and viscous [sic]
> >circles in the cheap acid of too hastily applied logical apparatuses,
> >hammering home the non-literary non-merely-word-play ‘point’ of
> >chiasmuses, etc, must appear as a display of error of logic or a
> >dismissal of it:
>
> some Heideggerians seem willing to follow Heidegger in his departure
> from the way of the Logos; but, few are equally willing to admit having
> done so.
>
> In my post of 2008-01-13, I replied to you by saying:
>
> “in a previous post I indicated that the road forked at the point where
> predication is defined as ’saying something about something’.
>
> “I accept this definition as meaning the same as ’saying something
> about something that is not nothing’.
>
> “you apparently accept this definition as meaning the same as ’saying
> something about something — including something that is nothing’.
>
> “I’ve given you my justifications for my reading of ’saying something
> about something’. what are your justifications for your reading?”
>
> it is one thing to complain that the way of the Logos is too confining;
> but, if that is your compaint is, why are you unwilling to acknowledge
> your own departure.
>
> do you claim the power to attribute predicates to nothing(ness) or do
> you not?
>
> Joe
>

ME: You certainly claim the power to predicate something of nothing, for you
have named it, and even predicated that something is distinct from nothing.

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