tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8861197.post112301988075568757..comments2023-06-27T16:51:05.805+02:00Comments on The Pangrammaticon: Clear the World Here?Thomashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04858865501469168339noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8861197.post-1123134801652609212005-08-04T07:53:00.000+02:002005-08-04T07:53:00.000+02:00Sheehan makes a convincing case for da = "the open...Sheehan makes a convincing case for da = "the open", as a fact of Heidegger interpretation. Not a phenomenological determination. In such cases, I think Heidegger is trying to make the <I>meanings</I> of individual words do what descriptions (poem-like things) are supposed to do. We must start with an ordinary "here" and an ordinary "opening" and then <I>show</I> "per descriptionem aliquam" (a specific sort of description, as Suarez put it, <I>not a definition</I>) how the here is an opening (of the now?). We must not imagine that there is some "primordial naming power" in the word "Da", which is <I>misunderstood</I> if we happen to something ordinary with it, like translating it into "here" or "there".<BR/><BR/>Anyway, thanks again for all the work you're doing. I'm also a big fan of the your surveillance of matters Heideggerian on the Net.<BR/><BR/>All the best.Thomashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04858865501469168339noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8861197.post-1123074245526017072005-08-03T15:04:00.000+02:002005-08-03T15:04:00.000+02:00Couple points.Heidegger's works (~100 volumes) inc...Couple points.<BR/><BR/>Heidegger's works (~100 volumes) include a fair amount of phenomenological description. So the = = = = appears at first glance to be a fairly radical proposal. But it does make a certain amount of sense. Reading Heidegger one gets the sense that he had one brilliant insight, and then elaborated it a million different ways.<BR/><BR/>The = = = = is Thomas Sheehan's interpretation of Heidegger, which may or may not be correct. And not everyone agrees that he is.enowninghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12287486840371546648noreply@blogger.com