Date: Tue, 12 May 1998 14:29:30 -0400
From: Daniel McGrady <dMcGrady-AT-compuserve.com>
Subject: Re: Language?


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>Henk van Tuijl wrote:

> Michael Staples wrote:
> What do Heideggerians mean by "Language"?

Michael Eldred once said to me that it was a cardinal error to confuse
'logos' with 'language'.   I assumed he meant something like, while logos
concerns the opening and the gathering, language trades upon it.   But this
is like saying that language and universality are different because as
every word is universal in form then universality is presupposed in order
for language to take place.   But universality is instituted by language.  
And so it would seem is the ontological difference.  Surely there could not
even be Sein (the infinitive 'to be') without language.


Daniel   


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