Become Real Through Recognition

Create Legibility

Depend On Order

Keep Their Own Order

Make Complexity Navigable

Need Interpretation To Exist

Organize Complexity

Organize Stuff

Reward Compression

linguistics

prescriptivism

is a kind of putting things on trial, making an entity account for the being of the entity itself, just as for the greeks, it was the the action of a public accusation, asking someone to account for their actions in front of witnesses.

According to Heidegger, the action of addressing oneself to an entity's Being is what the ancients understood by the term 'category'. Their use of category signifies making a public accusation, in the sense of asking someone to account for their actions in front of witnesses. When used ontologically, the term category has a similar meaning a kind of putting things on trial, but in this case what is made to account for itself is the Being of entity itself.

is a mere form of thought which receives objective reality. It receives reality as phenomena, for it is only of phenomena that we are capable of a priori intuition.

And in this manner the categories as mere forms of thought receive objective reality, that is, application to objects which are given to us in intuition, but that only as phenomena, for it is only of phenomena that we are capable of a priori intuition. (CPR 90)

is dependent on the assumption that reality can be studied by slicing it into parts and grouping those parts into sets, based on some perceived similarity between the parts. This slicing is not seen in terms of doing violence to the 'wholeness of reality' for the wholeness of reality is considered to be a mystery that needs to be taken apart and analyzed in order to be understood.

The use of categories is predicated on the assumption that reality can be studied by slicing it into parts and grouping those parts into sets, based on some perceived similarity between the parts. In the traditional philosophical paradigm, this slicing is not seem in terms of doing violence to the 'wholeness of reality', for the wholeness of reality is considered to be a mystery that needs to be taken apart and analysed in order to be understood. In addition, one also has to bear in mind that the violence of cutting up objects for study in this way in no way effects the person who is studying them. Since this person, as a subject, is detached from the objects of study and emotionally indifferent to them. However in Heidegger's ontological paradigm, such distinctions collapse and therefore the assumptions upon which are based also collapse. (mundey)

is necessarily determined by a particular kind of language and that particular language used lets everyone else see the object in terms of its Being.

In other words, the particular kind of language we use to determine a category lets everyone else see the object in terms of its Being. (Mundey)

is the the action of a public accusation, asking someone to account for their actions in front of witnesses.

is what is 'sighted' in words (the logos), which implies the articulation of an explicit description of the being of a given entity, rather than the covering over of that being of that entity with a name.

When we use Language in this way it allows us to uncover the 'what's that'' of an object's Being that exist before it is named. The Categories are therefore what are 'sighted' in words (the logos), which implies the articulation of an explicit description of the Being of a given entity, rather than the covering over of that Being of that entity with a name. [ref. 9, page 70] (Mundey)

You understand a category (state, concept) by its opposite.

category, n.All

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