Heidegger

Cologne 27-May-2008

Joseph Polanik schrieb Tue, 27 May 2008 06:25:19 -0400:

> Michael Eldred wrote:
>
> > Joseph Polanik schrieb Sun, 25 May 2008 08:12:52 -0400:
>
> >>do you claim the power to attribute predicates to nothing(ness) or do
> >>you not?
>
> >>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.
>
> saying that something is not nothing says something about something that
> is not nothing; hence, it is a legitimate predication.
>
> 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.
>
> I’ve previously expressed my view that [A] should be understood to mean
> exactly what [B] appears to mean.
>
> you’ve claimed that [B] is untenable; but, you never really gave an
> example of a statement of predication that met [A] as you interpret it
> without meeting [B] as I interpret it.
>
> would you do that, now?
>
> Joe
>

ME: If something is not nothing, then, so too, nothing is not something,
which is saying something about nothing. So your premiss B fails.

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