Heidegger and "Da-sein"

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Re: Heidegger and "Da-sein"

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Fool -

But he DOES define it (vaguely). I have shown a little of this in the OP. There are other instances. What I am saying is they do not come together to form a worthy tool.

I can define "Burning Ghost", is it not difficult. I work with people everyday and have to explicate many words. I do so by example, synonym and binding of other terms. If someone were to ask what does "the" mean I'd have to explain how it is used, that is its "definition"; how it is put to use.
The question of being is not limited to phenomenal experience.
If that is true then it is extended on by way of language because of phenomenal experience. Heidegger was doing phenomenology of a certain breed.
It seems to me that with your demand for a definition it is you who misunderstands the problem of being as one of language only.
Heidegger's approach is hermeneutic.
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Re: Heidegger and "Da-sein"

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Heideggers "method" is analytically describe what Dasein means, not to present any fixed definitions for logical deductions or for verifications against empirical reality. You can't separate Dasein and Reality so that you firstly define hypothetically Dasein and then armed with this definition go out there and try to verify this definition against empirical reality. In phenomenology subject or act is always correlatively linked with "reality" or that there is intentionality. Definition presupposes distinction between something like a model and reality itself. This kind of "nominalism" is against basic tendencies of phenomenology. The question here is what is phenomenology or what definition means in relation to phenomenology?

Heidegger is interested in Dasein only so far as the analysis of Dasein helps to clear out the question of being in general. Being is seen to have something to do with time. According to Heidegger in antique Greece where question for being or metaphysics was first conceived being was defined so that it had time related meaning. Why being has this time related "connotation" and what that means? To answer this question we have to analyze basic life experience or Dasein which shows how this experience or Dasein is fundamentally time related*. The original connection between being and time is shown to be rooted in Daseins life experience. Out of this experience will be found meaning for the particular understanding of being which traditional metaphysics have. Time as presence is specific experience. Being as being-at-presence only one specific way of understanding being. Tr. metaphysics has not analysed Dasein and its various ways to understand beings and this neglect or disregard (which ignores "trivial" Dasein) has resulted in an approach in which it takes granted one particular interpretation. (Similarly modern epistemology is based on an presupposed ontology which assumes that the meaning of being is being as presence. Epistemology has as its starting point abstract subject facing abstract object.)

* there is in antique Greece already indications that their way of thinking was rooted in their Dasein. Being as presence was theoretically and practically interwoven in Greek "way of living".
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