Date: Fri, 29 May 1998 23:52:08 -0700 (PDT)
From: callihan-AT-callihan.seanet.com (Steven E. Callihan)
Subject: Re: Self-evidently so ...


[...]
>It is so strange. This statement, paraphrased, is on page 14 of Dreyfus'
>Being-in-the-world. I have it all marked up and highlighted. And yet, it
>had not occured to me quite this way. But let me ask a basic question
>here again: If the tree does not exist, and its Being is in part tied to
>Dasein, then in the abscence of Dasein, what could we say bout the tree?
>We cannot say that it  exists in the abscence of Dasein...because it
>never existed in the first place. We cannot say that it is still
>"there", because without Dasein there is no "there" there. And we cannot
>say that it still "is" because the "is" is the "there" that isn't there.
>So, what can we say about the tree in the abscence of Dasein? Is there a
>simple aswer here?
>
>Michael Staples

Except, it goes the other way as well -- what can we say about Dasein in the
absence of the things (trees, rocks, hammers, etc.) that exist (are there)?
Is "there" there, in other words, in the absence of any other there (trees,
rocks, hammers, etc.) being there?

Steve C.
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