Subject: RE: Being and Christmas Snowmen
Date: Sat, 24 Aug 2002 11:57:47 +0200


> Abstract nouns like existence and resistance and persistence
> and ALL the rest of them do not exist, only that which exists
> exists, only that which resists resists, and only that which
> persists persists.

Hm, they exist at least in the dictionary...

As Eminescu put it, the idea of a square circle is not impossible since
it exists (we are able to think it, or, at least name it).

Become what you are!
(cf. Martin Heidegger's _Being and Time_, § 31, and Friedrich
Nietzsche's subtitle to _Ecce Homo_)
 
Tudor Georgescu (no, not "become *me*", silly! :-) )

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