Heiko

To me this seems like a mere thought experiment. The totally of sensations always provides for a reference of duration. The body itself generates diff...

So you are suggesting to ditch the positive identity and fall back to identity as difference? How could this look for "Dasein"?

I am sorry. The point, again, is that the being of mere tools made for a purpose, is not what seems worth a lengthy discussion. A hammer is a tool to ...

And the stars?

For a hammer this might be true. There is not too much to doubt about the meaning, purpose or function of a hammer, because it is just a human-invente...

In Being and Time he states Emphasis mine - sorry for bad copy&paste. In German, the formulation is somewhat stronger Equipment, taken strictly, never...

I take this to mean that the hammer was manufactured with a certain, known intention and therefor it's being is in-itself when we understand that inte...

But wasn't the point of existentialism that the categorial understanding follows the apple's existence? An apple is stating itself as an apple - all w...

I'd rather say the point is that time is the measure of change, not the other way around.

I'd say the real apple is an apple that reveals itself as an apple whereas the imaginary apple is an apple that reveals itself as imagination.

The mass of detail may obstruct the view of the essential. Taking maths as an example it seems you can get through quite a few (even university-)cours...

A triangle can be little, large, flat or pointy. To me, it is not clear at all which same- or alike-ness would make up for the essential properties of...

On the other hand, coming back to the use-character, Heidegger points out that such stuff really "isn't" in some sense. I guess this has to do with th...

I think it does. You do not need to know what is flying towards you to react. You do not need to know if it is a telephone-pole or a streetlight that ...

But in this sense it is not about use, it is about what gains identity and so just "is" without spending any further thought. It is purely phenomenolo...

I'd indeed say the "interpretation" or recognition as a tree comes after the "that thing there". It happens all the time that one can not exactly iden...

The first sentence took me some time. I don't think that "alteration" is the right word there - "defines" would be more appropiate, I think. When usin...

Does being happen?

So being literally has no properties?

So, when talking about being, we would predicate being. Therefor being would have to be something that exists. But this seemingly cannot be the case a...

Exactly. Which is why the statement "Harry Potter exists" is underdetermined and misleading. We would understand it as "Harry Potter is a real person"...

A mental picture of an apple, for example. Could be a painted image as well.

Wouldn't this mean Harry Potter exists? It is just that he is no real person but a fictive figure. If you imagine an apple then there surely is an ima...

Exactly - the _negative_ account is the corrective.

Or just different ones. What was the point of "falsification" again?

I am really not concerned with Kuhn. I am more or less talking to you. But if you take his words to mean that assuming a flat earth is scientifically ...

Reality becomes visible when theories do _not_ hold. I doubt you can "construe" a vase out of thin air.

There it is again. "You can construe". This is not the relation between you and a vase.

I just cite your argument: It is not me who doubts the vase is a vase until it isn't anymore.

In "being" itself. The point is that a vase is just a vase. It doesn't matter the slightest that it could turn into a pile of broken glass any moment ...

No, that is a supposed identity of the object. If the object crumbles into pieces the identity is lost. The identity certainly does not lie in the thi...

You are missing the point. The "in-itself" is a speculation. The "thing" will negate any phantasm you might have about it by itself. This is what is c...

The interesting question: If the world, the things, just everything is the real production of "being", why should we not concern ourselves with them? ...

Which is a statement about the present. The non-logical part is about what things will be. You give account of this by saying "Then there is". So the ...

If there is a tree in your way, you just cannot walk further. What is rationally undenyable lies in what cannot be case. The best positive statements ...

Dasein has to be what it is. Whenever you determine something, it is and can only be an "object". Heidegger said something about the very term "existe...

But who was talking about that? We talked about the intention for chosing that term.

What do you mean? Heidegger describes human existence. It is purely speculative if such experience applies to other "things" (can apes lie?) Hegel use...

Honestly, I do not see why you come up with memory in this context. If you say my intent to move, reflected by the mirror as movement, is just a memor...

Why? I'd say that is correct. Heidegger uses the term throughout the book in the way he does. I just pointed out that he chose that term because it do...

Correct. In german, "Dasein" wrt to "human existence" has a strong connotation towards "poor"/"pittyful". Think "a human" losing all human qualities.

But that is the point I do not buy exactly. As I read Hegel "Dasein" is just some "completely undetermined something" (for lack of better words). In m...

Or it can be what you see in a mirror. For me reflection is more like self-description, self-observation or anything where you are "your own object". ...

The reflective element is embedded to Dasein as it bears the concept of self. It is the "being that I am". Therefor it is "seiend" or ontic. Heidegger...

Which was to be shown. The subject reflects on itself as Dasein, therefor the reflection is never appropriate.

Heidegger calls "Dasein" an "existential title" - it is an objectivized form of the subject with strong connotations to Hegel. It is literally a "bein...

I am sorry you didn't get the joke about formal logic. There are no objects without properties.

Correct. "Being" means "being labeled".

Thought as such seems to be a reflection. The determination of the content seems to be outside the mental form.

Depends - identifying a thing often requires movement - or when you are close to a colored surface or in the case of a looking into a flashlight you m...