Heidegger

In a message dated 2/24/2009 8:55:45 AM Eastern Standard Time,
GEVANS613 at aol.com writes:
You might get away when you buttonhole somebody in the street and scream:
*God is!* (notice that the millions of Muslims in the world are always careful
to add the predicate: *…is great!) but try screaming: *Lavrenti Poslethwaite
is!* and before you know it - […]

In a message dated 24/02/2009 11:35:24 GMT Standard Time, jpolanik at nc.rr.com
writes:
Using the Is of Isness to State the Obvious
>Joe: and … you imagine that I disagree? is that what you’re saying?
>Jud: Ask, Jan, MichaelP and Bob - they are the ones trying to educate
>you.
[Joe]: I’ll let them speak […]

In a message dated 22/02/2009 17:14:25 GMT Standard Time,
_jPolanik at nc.rr.com_ (mailto:jPolanik@nc.rr.com)
writes: Joe:
while a statement of predication asserts of some x *what* it is or *what*
properties it has, etc. your theory shipwrecks itself on a simple fact: I
assert that I am by stating ‘I am’. your theory predicts that people are […]

There was a truncated sentence in my last post - we’ve still got the
builders adding an extension to the house and I got interupted.
A critical feature of the so-called swinging copula (covert predication)
which is yet another nail in the coffin of the non-existerntial function of
/be/ and its conjugates, is […]

In a message dated 23/02/2009 05:58:05 GMT Standard Time, GEVANS613 at aol.com
writes:
In a message dated 21/02/2009 18:41:17 GMT Standard Time,
_jpolanik at nc.rr.com_ (mailto:jpolanik@nc.rr.com) writes:
Joe writes:
Jud, have read your essay on the classification of predicates and have the
following comments.
you have pointed out that some statements that have the form of […]

Using the Is of Isness to State the Obvious
gevans613 at aol.com wrote:
>jPolanik@nc.rr.com
>[Joe]: semantically, a statement of isness asserts of some x *that* it
>is, while a statement of predication asserts of some x *what* it is or
>*what* properties it has, etc. your theory shipwrecks itself on a
>simple fact: I […]

In a message dated 21/02/2009 18:41:17 GMT Standard Time,
_jpolanik at nc.rr.com_ (mailto:jpolanik@nc.rr.com) writes:
Joe writes:
Jud, have read your essay on the classification of predicates and have the
following comments.
you have pointed out that some statements that have the form of statements
of predication are statements about the experiencer. ‘that perfume smells good’
is […]

>Joe: while a statement of predication asserts of some x *what* it is
>or *what* properties it has, etc. your theory shipwrecks itself on a
>simple fact: I assert that I am by stating ‘I am’. your theory predicts
>that people are not able to do that.
>Jud: On the contrary my theory […]