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L.E: So much forest, and here I sit with a dull machete.

 

In a message dated 6/19/2006 7:49:24 AM Pacific Daylight Time,

pedsie5 writes:

 

> P: No, Lewis, the subtlety doesn't elude me. Maybe we have been

> saying the same " thing, " :)) but talking at cross purposes. I confess,

> sometimes, I find your exuberant writing style as an impenetrable

> jungle my dull machete cannot hack. I think you are saying above, that

> there is only appearance beyond words. Well, then there is this X you

> call appearance, and discursive thinking objectivize that into 'wordily

> objects.'

>

> Lewis: No, Pete, I am not saying that. The phrase is " There is no thing

> beyond words " (green) and not " There is only appearance beyond

> words, " (blue) We still have positing of X, an existent, a thing.

>

> A form, appearance, as special case in this instance only, is not a

> thing, existent, a referent, as are all other words. Perhaps this

> helps.

>

> The paradox is: form, appearance named and empty.

>

> Emptiness is form. Form is emptiness.

>

 

 

 

 

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