From: henry sholar <hwsholar-AT-uncg.edu>
Subject: Re: interpretation
Date: Wed, 05 Aug 1998 16:42:56 -0500



On Wed, 05 Aug 1998 12:08:45 -0700 "Robert T. Guevara [W]"
<guevara-AT-rain.org> wrote:


>
> hiya guys. i'm still stuck with that "thinking" isn't clarified in these
> discussions and probably 'cause i jump in and out with months long
> absences. i personally still hold that "thinking" is praxis (thinking in
> the H sense).
>
> that is to say:  if a particular person's activity is the result of being
> socialized into practices that always already embody an interpretation -in
> other words- these practices contain an interpretation of what it is to be
> a person and what it is for a society to be and what objects are etc etc ->
> that is an understanding of being (ie socialized into an understanding of
> what it is to be human) -and all this spells out that the person comes to a
> knowing-how-to-cope rather than s/he acquiring a set of beliefs that give
> action. (ie there are no is beliefs but only skills and practices)


yeah. this is a good outline of division one
of b&t by dreyfuss circa '79


> ... so having said that it seems to me that interpretation-all-the-way-down
> is different than introspection and i say that it's confusing to not draw a
> distinction between interpretation and what might more traditionally be
> called belief given internal dialogue.

the dif may be in that introspection can be a present-at-hand analysis
of one's own existence as if to determine the flaws or attributes of
the essence of that existence?  fundamentalist or cultic dictations
easily come to mind, but i'm not sure=C9 too hasty, too "ontic"?



> surely all this is clear to everyone here but can any of you explicitly
> address interpretation for me? (in the H sense)
>
> ps-michael. i may say something 'bout the questions you posed for me but
> perhaps not given that henry already covered it much better than i can.

"but perhaps not given" indeed=C9

kindest regards,
henry

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