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15575 | Knowledge is not a static set of correct propositions, but a continuing search for better interpretations |
Full Idea: Thanks to Heidegger, hermeneutics has gained wider acceptance - that knowledge is not a static set of correct propositions, but a continuing search for better interpretations. | |||
From: Richard Polt (Heidegger: an introduction [1999], 3.§7) | |||
A reaction: I am not sure if I understand the notion of a search that has a refusal to actually find anything as one of its basic principles. |
15568 | When we consider possibilities, there must be something we are considering |
Full Idea: We would hardly want to say that a possibility is nothing, since surely we are considering something when we consider possibilities. | |||
From: Richard Polt (Heidegger: an introduction [1999], 1) | |||
A reaction: A nice contribution to the issue of whether modality is a feature of actuality. I would prefer to say that we can self-evidently utter truths and falsehoods about what is or is not possible, in nature, in logic, and maybe in metaphysics. |