thing

collective noun

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fire

process

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borrowing

library

phenomenology

thingification

is a thing, not what is said of that thing.

A thing is a thing, not what is said of that thing.

is, as 'ta chremata', a thing insofar as it is in use and at our constant disposal.

Ta chremata: The things insofar as they are in use and therefore stand at our constant disposal-they

is, as 'ta mathemata', a thing insofar as . ..

Ta mathamata: According to the characterization running through these last four, we must also say here of mathamata: The things insofar as they . . . but the question is: In what respect' (heidegger 'modern science' : 250)

is, as 'ta physica', a thing insofar as it originates and comes forth from itself.

Ta physica: The things insofar as they originate and come forth from themselves. (heidegger 'modern science' : 250)

is, as 'ta poioumena', a thing insofar as it is produced by the human hand and stands as such.

Ta poioumena: The things insofar as they are produced by the human hand and stand as such.(heidegger 'modern science' : 250)

is, as 'ta pragmata', a thing insofar as it is practical, and insofar as we have to do with it at all.

Ta pragmata: The things insofar as we have to do with them at all, whether we work on them, use them, transform them, or only look at and examine them, pragmata being related to praxis: here praxis is taken in a truly wide sense, neither in the narrow meaning of practical use (chresthai) nor in the sense of praxis as ethical action... praxis is all doing, pursuing, and sustaining, which also includes poiesis... (heidegger 'modern science' : 250)

is characterized as identity in difference, a fixed object that is saturated in a recognition of the absolute non-fixedness, mobility and flow of the world.

Recalling, in his very first seminar, that the relation between the concept and the thing is founded on the pairing of identity and difference, Lacan adds: 'Heraclitus tells us if we introduce absolute mobility in the existence of things such that the flow of the world never comes to pass twice by the same situation, it is precisely because identity in difference is already saturated in the thing'. [9] (Badiou 'lacan and the pre-socratics pdf)

is characterized by the fact that it exhibits itself for the consciousness apprehending it in a specific manner, but is at the same time reflected out of the way in which it presents itself to consciousness and back into itself... in other words, it contains in its own self an opposite truth [to that which it has for the apprehending consciousness].

Our experience, then, is this, that the Thing exhibits itself for the consciousness apprehending it, in a specific manner, but is at the same time reflected out of the way in which it presents itself to consciousness and back into itself... in other words, it contains in its own self an opposite truth [to that which it has for the apprehending consciousness]. (hegel 'phenomenology' 74)

thing, n.Definitions

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