Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2001 11:30:31 -0500
From: allen scult <allen.scult-AT-drake.edu>
Subject: Re: the possible impossiblity of the possible, but first:



>At 21:50 8-9-01 -0700, Rene adduced Kenneth
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>>>it is also possible, that we merely eat and sleep, and that's it.
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>>uh, as in: it is also possible there is no possible?
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>  >impossible!


The Im-possible though is possible to think, which thinking also 
involves the possibility that there is no possible.  All of which 
leads me to conclude not that we have something rather than nothing, 
but rather that we have a range of possibilities for thinking the 
possible, one of which is the possibility that there is no possible.

>This is obviously more possibilities than we need.  How about we go 
>back to Husserl and the freedom-giving work of self-evidence.  What 
>calls for thinking in this case is that we haven't yet thought our 
>way to the bottom of the gift of self-evidence.  So the further we 
>can think through the phenomenology of self evidence, the more 
>freedom awaits us!

I speak with such optimism as a spur to go on eating and sleeping.



Allen


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