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From: "Chris Doss" <BR>
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>From: Michael Pollak <mpollak@panix.com><BR>
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> > Nothing, by definition, cannot exist. That's what makes it nothng!<BR>
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>Oh you Heideggerians are incorrigible. Nothing is nothing because it has<BR>
>no determinations and thus no content. The same of course can also be<BR>
>said of Being. Only later, when each concept has a content, can they<BR>
>truly be distinguished. Here in the first stage of immediacy we<BR>
>distinguish them prospectively simply because they *ought* to be<BR>
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>I hope that's clear. Yours truly,<BR>
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>GWF Hegel<BR>
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Damn Hegelians reducing everything to the dead conceptual shell!</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0"></BLOCKQUOTE><BR>
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Can nothing be reduced to ...less than nothing ?<BR>
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