Heidegger

In a message dated 9/10/2007 5:00:30 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
GEVANS613 at aol.com writes:

Cologne 10-Sep-2007

“Etwas Rätselhaftes, daß etwas ist als das, was es zugleich nicht ist.”
Martin Heidegger _Platon:Sophistes_ GA19:580

“Somewhat perplexing that something is as that which, at the same time,
it is not.”
Martin Heidegger _Platon:Sophistes_
Jud:
Another piece of unsophisticated, vacuous, sibylline rubbish by a
self-appointed con-man who cravenly professed a special spiritual, philosophical and
political enlightenment. [see mental home episode and teaching ban.] Signifying
nothing, but designed to impress, such was the nature of this metaphysical
Nazi necromancer, with his deliberate avoidance of ontological specificity
contrived to sound wise, but saying and meaning absolutely nothing.

Dear Jud;
Before you go off half cocked with your politicisms and their reductions for
your convenience, the “that something is as that which, at the same time,
it is not,” aside from its philosophical and psychological cogency, is
equally reflected in modern physics as the nature of complementarity. Certainly it
is peplexing that the wave function and the mass of a sub nuclear particle
cannot be determined simultaneously but only one at a time. It gives notice,
however, that at the micro level of phenomena the macro level of understanding, to
which you appear to be limited, avoids the uncertainty of existence. Your
totalitarian mode of thinking is thus locked in what William James referred to as
the “iron blocked” universe (of mind) of 19th century thinking, nay, as
pre-Newtonian in a reality (ontological) view. James noted: “Now, evidence of an
external kind to decide between determinism and indeterminism is, as I intimated
a while back, strictly impossible to find. Let us look at the difference
between them and see for ourselves. What does determinism profess?…It professes
that those parts of the universe already laid down absolutely appoint and
decree what the other parts shall be. The future has no ambiguous possibilities
bidden in its womb; the part we call the present is compatible with only one
totality. Any other future complement than the one fixed from eternity is
impossible. The whole is in each and every part, and welds it with the rest into an
absolute unity, an iron block, in which there can be no equivocation or shadow
of turning….Indeterminism, on the contrary, says that the parts have a
certain amount of loose play on one another, so that the laying down of one of them
does not necessarily determine what the others shall be. It admits that
possibilities may be in excess of actualities, and that things not yet revealed to
our knowledge may really in themselves be ambiguous. Of two alternative futures
which we conceive, both may now be really possible; and the one becomes
impossible only at the very moment when the other excludes it by becoming real
itself. Indeterminism thus denies the world to be one unbending unit of fact.. It
says there is a certain ultimate pluralism in it; and, so saying, it
corroborates our ordinary unsophisticated view of things. To that view, actualities seem
to float in a wider sea of possibilities from out of which they are chosen;
and, somewhere, indeterminism says, such possibilities exist, and form a part
of truth.” (Quoted as it appeared in
_http://evans-experientialism.freewebspace.com/james_wm05.htm_
 http://evans-experientialism.freewebspac…)
Sincerely;
Bernard

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