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In article <1992Aug28.162115.22963@galois.mit.edu> tycchow@riesz.mit.edu  
(Timothy Y. Chow) writes:

>  How do you divorce the
> concept of "Being-in-the-world" from Heidegger, or "Absolute Spirit" from
> Hegel?  Such divorcing is not as easy as you seem to make it out to be.
> 

We quite succesfully divorced calculus from Newton and 
Electrodynamics from Maxwell. If the notions you cite cannot be divorced
from their authors, that says to me that the phrases don't really
mean anything, and that philosophers are more interested in
the individuals than in the ideas.


> Secondly, if the originals are inferior, where can we find these superior
> presentations that you seem to imply exist?  

I'm suggesting that the fact they cannot be found points to a weakness
in philosophy and/or philosophical discourse.


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Barry Merriman
UCLA Dept. of Math
UCLA Inst. for Fusion and Plasma Research
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