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Words can be transmitted through sound or they can be transmitted through writing. As sounds or as written signs, words are invariably read. As sounds, they are read and understood by being heard by our hearing apparatus; heard words are heard by our ears that hear, and thereafter understood by simply having been heard by…
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Does light have being? We say that the sun emits light. Hence, the sun emits something. A something is a being. But is light a being? It seems wrong to suppose this, even if only in words. What is the difference between Man and a giraffe? Following Heidegger, all we can say is that Man…
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Let us start by postulating that pain is staged. Such a postulation would make pain somewhat irreal, a game even. But we know that when we feel pain, we feel its pangs genuinely enough. In experiencing pain, we do not sense anything irreal about it, let alone do we consider that it might all be…
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