Re: Fwd: SUO Quo Vadis
Mark,
> ... I want to ... to pick up what phenomenology gives us; an
> understanding of the role our senses play in our perception of the world,
> and an understanding of the role language plays in how we classify and
> categorise the world.
> my point is that we need to look at the whole classification issue from
> the human standpoint...
To resolve the inconsistencies in our logic by acknowledging the priority of
the human over the logical?
> What Heidegger is saying is that any classification of the world is blind,
> in fact contraproductive, if it does not concern itself with the question
> of *being*: ultimately the question of classification is a question of
> being.
>
> And not of substance. Substance is something which *becomes*, i.e.
> instantiates, through being. i am not claiming that the apple is not there
> if i do not look at it - but without a perciever there can be no
> perception.
>
> ... the only approach which it seems to me to be worth
> following is to understand how our thought processes develop, and thus how
> we categorise.
This strikes me as very close to the emphasis on process in ontology which I
was asking for.
Do you have any candidates in mind for the process of categorization? (The
process of "being"/perception?)
-Rob