jlsperanza@xxxxxxx wrote:
This is important. I cannot conceive of a human being (not a thing, really) just thinging. Take an Air Conditioner Repair Man (or Person). Surely he needs permission (by a nonthing = person) to get in, and he´ll need the payment from the person (not thing).
Both the Buddhists and the Kantians might say that we "thing." We create the appearance of a "thing" where none existed; without people there would be no "things" at all. The forms of apperception (or the law of dependent origination) require that we notice that the process of "thinging" be a human one, not one in the outside (noumenal) world.
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