No, no - it was Biloxi's logic I was questioning (all feelosophers must
be acaqdemic disciplinarians). Heidegger of course thought they were
(Heraclitus anyway) THE ONES. My philosophy course started with them,
anyway, and academics taught me, though Prof. McIver - who had known
Wittgenstein - was the wackiest weirdo I've ever met - and he looked
like a reincarnation of one of the Ancient Greeks who had been
introduced to pipe smoking: his straggly beard was stained with tobacco
tar, and you could measure his tutorials horizontally by p.p.m. (puffs
per minute), vertically by a voice range of about 4 octaves, usually
spanned in a single sentence on, say, truth functions.
emjay
Robin Hamilton wrote:
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> Heidegger preferred Hölderlin & Diels' Fragmente.
> Whatever turns you on.
> emjay
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> You mean you think (or Heidegger thought, linking them to a poet) that
> the Pre-Socratics weren't philosophers?
>
> Going to have to think on that.
>
> <g>
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> October's Robin
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