Date: Mon, 07 Jun 2004 14:33:41 +0100
Subject: on ontics and on sticks
From: "michaelP" <michael-AT-sandwich-de-sign.co.uk>


spake Jud to Malcom on haranguing and boomeranging:

> its the  guy who throws it — the ONTIC human being who throws the
> ONTIC boomerang or  ONTIC killing stick.

To throw this back at you, Jud, a sticking point: in employing the term
"ontic" (whether you understand it correctly or not, whether you agree or
not) you imply the ontological (whether you understand it or not, whether
you agree or not), since "ontic" (the province of ta onta) means nothing
without the ontological (the province, or rather, non-province, of hen [and
also polemos, physis, logos, helios, kairanos, sophon, etc]). Rather than
think the ontic/ontological as signifying realms of things (or non-things),
I rather fancy seeing them as signifying modes of thinking things and
non-things (beings), but the difference is crucial. Science, pseudo-science
and common-s(ci)ense always consider they speak of the ontic only but that
is just plain impossible since in thinking the ontic (thinking ontically)
one is necessarily thinking (the) ontological(ly) (because beings are the
beings of being; in the same sense that appearances are the appearing of
that which appears, that the appearing of what appears is different
{momentarily at least in the unblinking eye of the not-last-man} than what
appears in such an appearance; and, just as the way or manner that a thing
is {as that thing that it is} is not identical to the thing itself, but both
the way {a thing is} and the thing that is be-wayed are always found
together, etc). One could say that ontology (as I understand it) is seeing
and bringing forward the hammering in the hammered especially where the
hammering is obscured by the hammered to the point that only the hammered is
perceived (this is called 'science' and 'pseudoscience' and both are
metaphysics that sees itself beyond or outside of metaphysics and this
constitutes the greatest danger far overreaching the minuscule one of global
terror or rising oil prices [: minuscule reply to Malcom: longer one
a-coming]). This blindness truly staggers.

regards

michaelP


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