Date: Sat, 10 Aug 2002 20:31:52 EDT
Subject: Heidegger's Wild Leaf-Chase.



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 "Where and what "is" the 'is'?"

(Or - the Mangelwurzel Kid Hits Town.)




Professor Heidegger: 
"The leaf is green. " I find the green of the leaf in the leaf itself. But 
where is the "is"? I say, nevertheless, the leaf "is"- it itself, the leaf.  
Consequently the "is" must belong to the visible leaf itself. But I do not 
"see" the "is" in the leaf, for it would have to be coloured or spatially 
formed. Where and what "is" the "is"?


Herr Evans: 
"I sympathise with you now as you thrash around in bewilderment. You seem to 
think that the word IS can in some magical way attach itself to the leaf, and 
I can see you are actually examining the leaf - looking for the *IS-label* 
like a suspicious customer examining the label in a coat to prove its 
provenance. Please stop, you are embarrassing me - oh what a sorry sight! Oh 
yes, one further point.  The photonic "truth" of the matter is that grass is 
every colour of the rainbow EXCEPT green, because  green is the one 
wavelength that the leaf will not absorb into itself.
It therefore reflects into the eye of the beholder the quotidian greeness 
assumed to be its very essence like some  absolutely rejected aspect of 
existence!  A quick push on the *IS* button would have prompted you to have 
sorted out this information - perhaps by resorting to the  Encyclopaedia 
Britannica?"


"I'm sorry Professor Heidegger: - You're the weakest link...GOODBYE!"



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