Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2003 13:57:47 +0000 Subject: what is metaphysics? From: "michaelP" <michael-AT-sandwich-de-sign.co.uk> > THIS MESSAGE IS IN MIME FORMAT. Since your mail reader does not understand this format, some or all of this message may not be legible. --MS_Mac_OE_3125138267_1525961_MIME_Part judspakethusly: I am just about to post my introduction to a longish piece on ousia, which will have an account of its historical background, an overview, some comparisons with other tongues and a bit about the chronology and significance of the scholastic exist-word, which came later and saved the metaphysical bacon. Apart from 'a book written by Aristotle' (convention) or a subdiscipline or field of philosophy (another mere convention), what, Jud, do you [underlined] understand by 'metaphysics' or the 'metaphysical'? And without using the cognates of "transcendentalism" or gratuitously mentioning "Nazi", "religionist", "cult", or any other scabrously [sic] insulting and redundant (to a philosophical dsicussion) asides and adjectives, if you please. Try? cheers michaelP --MS_Mac_OE_3125138267_1525961_MIME_Part
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I am just about to post my introduction to a longish piece on ousia, which will have an account of its historical background, an overview, some comparisons with other tongues and a bit about the chronology and significance of the scholastic exist-word, which came later and saved the metaphysical bacon.
Apart from 'a book written by Aristotle' (convention) or a subdiscipline or field of philosophy (another mere convention), what, Jud, do you [underlined] understand by 'metaphysics' or the 'metaphysical'? And without using the cognates of "transcendentalism" or gratuitously mentioning "Nazi", "religionist", "cult", or any other scabrously [sic] insulting and redundant (to a philosophical dsicussion) asides and adjectives, if you please. Try?
cheers
michaelP
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