From: "Tudor Georgescu" <tgeorgescu-AT-home.nl> Subject: RE: heidegger-digest V2 #1920 Date: Fri, 4 Jul 2003 20:27:54 +0200 Well, an analysis of our perception tells us we do not see things but images (visual, acoustic, tactile, etc.) of things. Heidegger noticed that our way of dealing with them is not according to some awareness of such an image-like appearance, but we immediately recognize them as what they are. E.g. the image of a Pepsi bottle is taken by a camera. It is put on a website and we browse it. We are not immediately aware that it is an image, but we are immediately aware it is a Pepsi bottle. So from a thing we have an image which is received by our eyes and inside the brain (or maybe soul) the Pepsi in itself is being reconstructed. So, Heidegger, cunningly combined the idea of appearance of a thing (proper to empiricism and Kantianism) with the idea of a thing in itself (rationalism and Platonism), cf. his remarkable saying that "The painting is oblique" refers to the painting and not about some image of it which would be oblique inside our brain, while also admitting that we receive that painting as an appearance. Still a mystery? I think it is explained by his mention in objection to Carnap: "bebig" is no word. When we hear something we do not hear "I-F-E-E-L-P-A-I-N" but the fact of one's pain is immediately present in our awareness. Of course, it could be a lie, but any lie is based on the aptitude of saying a truth, for if we had the immediate knowledge someone is lying, we would be not longer capable of being manipulated, therefore lying would loose its purpose. Lies are a perversion of communication, not its model. So truth is more primordial than lie, much in disagreement with Heidegger's _On the essence of truth_. Gigantomachia peri tes ousias! Tudor Georgescu http://intellect-club.nl.eu.org Fax +1-775-245-5922 --- from list heidegger-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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