[lbo-talk] Grappling with Heidegger

[Jerry Monaco]

On 6/11/06, Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote:
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>
> Footnote:
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> Jerry Monaco wrote:
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> > For example, we know that some slight biological damage can take away
> > our perceptions of other minds, of the existence of "other minds".
> > This brings me to the conclusion that the very concept that their are
> > "other minds" like my own and beside my own, the very concept that
> > their our separate "selves" from me (no matter how we label these
> > terms), is a derivative phenomenological structure dependent and
> > perhaps even _created by non-experiential structures_ in our
> > mind-brains.
>
> Ordinarily it is quite proper on mail lists to ignore typographical
> errors, merely correcting them silently in our heads as we read the
> post. But perhaps in writing on topics (usually philosophical or
> neurological topics) in which fine distinctions make a real difference,
> writers should print out and proofread their posts several times before
> sending them. I _think_ I am following Jerry's post, and I find it
> interesting. But my grasp is tenuous enough that I will not trust my own
> guess as to the intended text represented here by "concept that their
> our separate 'selves'." "That there are separate 'selves'"? Or is "_our_
> separate 'selves'" correct, and  something is missing to give that
> phrase content?
>
> Carrol
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Quite right Carrol,  "there are separate 'selves'.  Wrote too quickly and
didn't reread.... dislexia kicking in etc.  Sorry....;.

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