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michaelP wrote:
>Whilst it is indeed reasonable for science and common-sense to boo-hoo
>such sentences as “it is” … such a sentence heard with philosophical
>or thinkerly ears … turns the antennae towards the “is”: be-ing. The
>very ubiquitousness of the tiny word “is” … means for me that be-ing
>is precisely hidden in the disclosive speech about beings … the task
>of thinking is to question what has been glimpsed in this appearance of
>what is hidden by ubiquitousness; once unearthed a mite by discussing
>the seemingly controversial sentence “it is”, we have a battle on our
>hands: be-ing has touched us, albeit polemically. And, oh yes, now so
>has polemos…
Michael,
I think there is great value in focusing on that which is hidden by
declarative speech; for example, that be-ing is hidden by discourse
about beings; but, even before we point out particular examples of this
phenomenon, we must acknowledge the source of the phenomenon: that which
is does not say its own name.
anything said of that which is or this which is becomes a name; and,
therefore, must also be unsaid — the paradox of apophasis: we can not
hope to learn what is true of that which is; but, we can aspire to
unlearn what is false.
Joe
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Philosophy is, after all, done ultimately in the first person for the
first person. — H-N Castaneda
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