Dear list members
Very interesting thread...
The discussion of whether all writing is fiction can be considered in
relation to the (paradoxical) question of whether we have practices for
making sense of entities as independent of those very practices.
“The being of entities does not lie in the activity of encountering, but
the encounter of entities is the phenomenal basis, and the sole basis,
upon which the being of entities can be grasped. Only the interpretation
of the encounter with entities can secure the being of entities, if at
all. It must be stated that the entity as an entity is 'in itself' and
independent of any apprehension of it; accordingly, the being of the
entity is found only in encounter and can be explained, made
understandable, only from the phenomenal exhibition and interpretation of
the structure of encounter.” (Heidegger, 1985: 217)
According to Dreyfus and Spinosa (1999, 57), Heidegger would argue that,
although the practice-based structure of encounter that gives us access to
entities depends on us essentially, what we encounter only contingently
depends on this structure. Then both our everyday and our scientific
practices could be understood, not as constitutive practices, but as
access practices allowing “genuine theoretical discovering”. (Heidegger
1962: 412)
You can’t have the skill for tying your shoelaces unless you have your
hands on your shoelaces.
luke
Dreyfus, H.L. & Spinosa, C. (1999) “Copying with Things-in-Themselves: A
Practice-Phenomenological Argument for Realism”, Inquiry 42, 49-78.
Heidegger, M., (1962
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