Heidegger

Joe:
consider two statements concerning the nature of predication:

A: predication is saying something about something

B: predication is saying something about something that is not nothing.

Jud:

B: Is an ontological error.

As there is no such thing as *nothing,* then *nothing* is not something
that is different from *something/s.*
If *nothing* is not something that is different from something/s or other
*nothing/s*, then it is ontologically illegitimate to employ such a term to
suggest that something is different from it. Patently *nothing* is not
constituted to be different from anything/s, or from *other nothings* and is
therefore rendered sylogistically useless. Such a conclusion cannot be derived
deductively, for one of the two necessary premises is false, absent and does not
exist.

Jud.

Posted on Sunday, June 8th, 2008 at 6:04 am
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