Heidegger

The One True Root Predicate

Michael Eldred wrote:

>Joseph Polanik schrieb Tue, 08 Jan 2008 06:48:38 -0500:

>>Has The Implicit Complement Been Found?

>>Michael Eldred wrote:

>>>ME: … your “root predicate” ‘reality’ must be prior to, more
>>>fundamental than being.

>>JP: the root predicate ‘reality’ is neither more nor less fundamental
>>than the root predicate ‘being’.

>ME: Except that to get to this so-called “root predicate”, you have
>already had to posit a prior predicate, ‘being’, in both your Axiom 0
>(which includes ‘x is’) and CPI (which includes ‘I am’), which shows
>that ‘reality’ cannot be a ‘root’ predicate, presupposing, as it does,
>a prior predicate.

>>JP: what is logically prior to the state of having chosen a root
>>predicate is the state of not yet having exercised that choice. that
>>which is is not nothing; and yet, that which is does not tell us its
>>own name; so, we must choose a root predicate that is attributable to
>>all that is.

>ME: There is no choice whatsoever about it, because you cannot avoid
>the true root predicate, ‘being’. Why? Because as soon as you open your
>mouth you have already invoked it.

>>JP: are you saying, “I, Michael Eldred, have found the one true root
>>predicate and thou shalt not have any alternate instead of it”?

>ME: Throughout this debate I have not claimed any originality.

okay, so you are not the first person to say, “I, [say your name here],
have found the one true root predicate and thou shalt not have any
alternate instead of it”.

that *is* what you are saying, is it not? that you have defined the
terms of the language in which philosophy takes place so that everyone
is required to agree with your opinion.

>ME:Language has already chosen for you before you could ever get to a
>choice.

what an imperiously orwellian approach to philosophy!

shall we blame this approach on Plato? or Heidegger?

Joe

–
Philosophy is, after all, done ultimately in the first person for the
first person. — H-N Castaneda

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Posted on Friday, January 11th, 2008 at 11:15 am
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