Date: Sun, 31 May 1998 14:39:54 -0700
From: Mike Staples <mstaples-AT-argusqa.com>
Subject: Re: Self-evidently so ...


Steven E. Callihan wrote:

> To exist, then, would mean to possess attributes (the attributes of a
> man, a
> woman, a tree, a hammer). Being, on the other hand, is attribute-less
> (or
> attribute-lessness).

Steve, here is the paragraph submitted by Laurence:

GA40: "Trees are, but do not exist, God is, but
does not exist ..." there are statements of this kind in a number of
places) - only Dasein as such exists (existence meaning being that being
for
whom the being of being can be an issue).

How does this match up to your suggestion that to exist means to possess
attributes? As you point out, a tree has attributes and therefore must
exist. According to the quote from GA40, trees do not exist.

Wadaya think?

Michael Staples



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