The debate about types is a good example of what I mean by anachronistic.. most of that discussion was moved to either technical discussions of physics stuff like what it means for a wave to exist as a probability (does a thing exist or not.. what is meant by a "thing" and "existence".. what is "really real" ?) and the study of the brain (is there an minimal table, possessing Platonic tablehood which everyone recognizes as a table no part of which can be removed without subjects reporting it's not a table?).
That kind of shit.
It's like they were all eating a feast and the table got picked up and moved somewhere else but they're still sitting right there moving their empty forks and knives in eternal gestures of eating food that isn't there anymore.
I sound like I think they have nothing to offer and that's not (that) true. I am sure they do . Maybe through some turn of fate science will be forced back on the questions they pondered in the way they pondered them and we'll see they were really radical geniuses beyond anyone's understanding.
That's what Heideggerians must believe. God knows you could go splunking in those caves and come back with pretty much anything you wanted to given enough license for interpretation, and HD has plenty to loan.
Maybe HD found the way to eternal truth- be vague, invent terms freely, posit ill-defined relationships between them and then elaborate on them like you're writing a Bach fugue. Feel free to contradict yourself so long as the contradictions are separated by at least 500 words of brain exhausting verbal thicket.
The debate about types is a good example of what I mean by anachronistic.. most of that discussion was moved to either technical discussions of physics stuff like what it means for a wave to exist as a probability (does a thing exist or not.. what is meant by a "thing" and "existence".. what is "really real" ?) and the study of the brain (is there an minimal table, possessing Platonic tablehood which everyone recognizes as a table no part of which can be removed without subjects reporting it's not a table?).
That kind of shit.
It's like they were all eating a feast and the table got picked up and moved somewhere else but they're still sitting right there moving their empty forks and knives in eternal gestures of eating food that isn't there anymore.
I sound like I think they have nothing to offer and that's not (that) true. I am sure they do . Maybe through some turn of fate science will be forced back on the questions they pondered in the way they pondered them and we'll see they were really radical geniuses beyond anyone's understanding.
That's what Heideggerians must believe. God knows you could go splunking in those caves and come back with pretty much anything you wanted to given enough license for interpretation, and HD has plenty to loan.
Maybe HD found the way to eternal truth- be vague, invent terms freely, posit ill-defined relationships between them and then elaborate on them like you're writing a Bach fugue. Feel free to contradict yourself so long as the contradictions are separated by at least 500 words of brain exhausting verbal thicket.
OK OK too dark I know.