Heidegger

Joseph Polanik wrote:

> chaney525 wrote:
>
> >The physical causes
> >of color pertain to the dynamics of energy and to the qualities of
> >physical matter, but also to the distinct sensory order. The two are
> >irreducible - the physical order is irreducible to the sensory order.
>
> also true. I would conclude from the physical order and the sensory
> order are different reality types. someone who used ‘being’ as a root
> predicate might say that they have different modes of being.

So why wouldn’t the “extra-mental” order and the *mental* order also be
different reality types, and therefore different modes of being when it
comes to one’s existence? I mean, just as extra-mental properties and
the sensation of “red” would be different reality types and modes of
being, why wouldn’t the same be true of the extra-mental existence of
the “I” and *thinking* that I exist? That’s what Hume argues (contra
Descartes).

Posted on Saturday, November 24th, 2007 at 2:00 pm
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