From: "Anthony Crifasi" <crifasi-AT-hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: Method
Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2002 22:18:48 


Jud Evans wrote:

>Dasein  ('being there' or 'there being') is just a grammatical (and
>extremely clumsy)  trick in order to make existence/being predicational,
>(which is impossible in logic and linguistics, and in sheer commonsense.
>Anthony's observation helps me  blow  the whole Dasein trick apart,  for
>existence doesn't exist - only the things that exist - exist - in the same
>way that only the dancers dance - not the dancing.

Saying that Dasein's essence is existence is different from saying that 
Dasein's essence exists, or that Dasein exists. After all, if Dasein's 
essence were an existent (soul, mind, matter, etc), Dasein's essence would 
exist too. So Heidegger obviously intends something else.

Anthony Crifasi

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