[lit-ideas] A Connoisseur's Guide to the Noumenon
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The Noumenon's Sojourn
In a message dated 9/9/2014 2:26:19 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
Palma@xxxxxxxxxx writes:
When the subject knows that p is noumena, assuming knowledge entails true
content, what are the truth conditions of "p is noumena"?
Part of the problem is Greek.
The Greeks were slightly confused about the word 'nous'. On top of that,
their grammar was even more complex than Italian grammar: the passive voice
got incorporated in the noun.
So, from 'nous', we have 'noumenon', which is a PASSIVE conception. What is
being THOUGHT.
Of course Kant, who should have known better, opposed it to the
PHAINOMENON. But there are differences, because 'what is appeared', or 'what
appears', follows a different logical grammar, since the verb from which
'phainomenon' derives bears a passive form but an 'active' meaning, as it were.
Cheers,
Speranza
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