Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2002 09:49:44 -0600
From: allen scult <allen.scult-AT-drake.edu>
Subject: Re: Martin Heidegger the intellectual mentor of the left



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At 9:53 AM +0000 2/19/02, Michael Pennamacoor wrote:
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>Ha.
>
>Well, methinks that sometimes one who ridicules (often, and, 
>seemingly, as a pathetic excuse for failing to provide a critique or 
>other civilised discourse with) an other, should sometimes be 
>enabled to witness the tour of babble erected and extant in their 
>own public garden, e.g:
>
>"....BUT, and this is the crucial point here, once we introduce the 
>AIT notion of the Modal Switch, this distinction proves not to be 
>cut and dried. This is seen when you introduce a sentence like "Carl 
>XVI Gustaf is eating the apple. " This would be analysed as follows:
>"Carl XVI Gustaf' <Extantal Imbuant 'is' <Modal Processant 'eating' 
><Modal Informant 'the apple' <Extantal Objectant"
>Here, the Extantal Objectant serves to establish that the apple is 
>the object to which the Imbuant is referred, in such a way that the 
>mode of existence of the Imbuant is also that of the Objectant.
>. . .

Michael,

For whatever reason, some of us insist on trying to do something with 
the Cat's not altogether grating meows,yet it often gets us 
someplace.  In this case, the place shows us something about the 
license we give ourselves to use a kind of Kabbalistic  jibberish to 
indicate the way of thinking that's closest to our hearts. Resorting 
to such language makes us extremely vulnerable, so as  you suggest, 
Michael, what is then required is a kind of decorum on the part of 
the other to enable one to continue-- to continue to make sense out 
of language which can so easily be made to appear foolish.

The question is, to what jibberish do you care to lend credence, the 
support of decorum? What jibberish do you leave alone as just 
uninteresting, and what jibberish do you choose to "expose" publicly? 
The choice here is crucial to philosophy, especially of the 
Heideggerian sort.

Allen
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Ha.

Well, methinks that sometimes one who ridicules (often, and, seemingly, as a pathetic excuse for failing to provide a critique or other civilised discourse with) an other, should sometimes be enabled to witness the tour of babble erected and extant in their own public garden, e.g:

"....BUT, and this is the crucial point here, once we introduce the AIT notion of the Modal Switch, this distinction proves not to be cut and dried. This is seen when you introduce a sentence like "Carl XVI Gustaf is eating the apple. " This would be analysed as follows:
"Carl XVI Gustaf' <Extantal Imbuant 'is' <Modal Processant 'eating' <Modal Informant 'the apple' <Extantal Objectant"
Here, the Extantal Objectant serves to establish that the apple is the object to which the Imbuant is referred, in such a way that the mode of existence of the Imbuant is also that of the Objectant.

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