Date: Thu, 20 Apr 1995 13:13:20 -0400
From: Getuppa-AT-aol.com
Subject: RE: Eternal Recurrence


Nathan,

There may indeed be nuances in Nietzsche which point away from the E.R. being
E.R. "of the same."

Aside from that question however, it doesn't strike me that "of the same."
must necessarily be rejected in order to read it as the return of difference.
 You could read same as "samness as a  phenomenon", or "that which is
apprehended as the same".  On this reading, one doesn't need to interpret it
as refering to the "same identical thing."  The apprehension of sameness
would always turn out to be an error, but a necessary one.  To stop at this
apprehension, and conclude somehow that it literally means "identical", would
be to engage in something along the lines of a "faith in grammar."

This sort of reading seems to point toward one possible way out of this
puzzle.

Sameness as such returns eternally.


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