Perhaps it would be interesting to look into the etymology of the "case",
and its phenomenology.
Tom B.
On Thu, 19 Sep 1996, Chris Morrissey wrote:
> You seem to sum up Heidegger's case for the primacy of dunamis. Or am I
> missing something? Anyone?
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> Chris Morrissey wrote:
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> >Would you say literal truth is the primary sense of truth?
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> >I think the question is related to this one: Is energeia higher than
> dunamis?
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> A "case" determines the potential for truth in any one instance, I suppose.
> A door may either be open or closed, and so may be said to be potentially
> either. However, it is actually one or the other. The potentiality of
> something defines what it is, what it may be, not just in one moment but in
> all moments. Its actuality, on the other hand is what it happens to be at
> any one moment. So what is higher? Potentiality delimits actuality.
> Something cannot actually be what it potentially is not. A wall, unlike a
> door, lacks the potentiality of being open, therefore there can be in
> actuality no such thing as an open wall. A flat wall. A high wall. But not
> an open wall.
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> Steve
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