[lit-ideas] Re: A Connoisseur's Guide to the Noumenon
- From: palma <palmaadriano@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: "lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2014 18:45:55 +0200
so what?
nu?
what the frigging fokking are you talking 'bout?
On Tue, Sep 9, 2014 at 6:39 PM, Redacted sender Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx for
DMARC <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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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