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Ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Essay Conc Human Understanding (2nd Ed)' and 'Ideas: intro to pure phenomenology'

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7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 3. Being / a. Nature of Being
22209 Our goal is to reveal a new hidden region of Being [Husserl]
     Full Idea: We could refer to our goal as the winning of a new region of Being, the distinctive character of which has not yet been defined.
     From: Edmund Husserl (Ideas: intro to pure phenomenology [1913], II.2.033)
     A reaction: The obvious fruit of this idea, I would think, is Heidegger's concept of Da-sein, which claims to be a distinctively human region of Being. I'm not sure I can cope with the claim that Being itself (a very broad-brush term) has hidden regions.
7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 3. Being / h. Dasein (being human)
22211 As a thing and its perception are separated, two modes of Being emerge [Husserl]
     Full Idea: We are left with the transcendence of the thing over against the perception of it, ...and thus a basic and essential difference arises between Being as Experience and Being as Thing.
     From: Edmund Husserl (Ideas: intro to pure phenomenology [1913], II.2.042)
     A reaction: I'm thinking that this is not just the germ of Heidegger's concept of Da-sein, but it actually IS his concept, without the label. Husserl had said that he hoped to reveal a new region of Being.
7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 4. Abstract Existence
8910 General and universal are not real entities, but useful inventions of the mind, concerning words or ideas [Locke]
     Full Idea: It is plain that general and universal belong not to the real existence of things; but are the inventions and creatures of the understanding, made by it for its own use, and concern only signs, whether words or ideas.
     From: John Locke (Essay Conc Human Understanding (2nd Ed) [1694], 3.03.11)
     A reaction: Frege and Geach viciously attacked this view, and it seems to be discredited, but I think it is time for a revival, given that the alternative view seems to lead to platonism. I take the first step in mental abstractionism to be pre-verbal.
7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 6. Criterion for Existence
12554 Existences can only be known by experience [Locke]
     Full Idea: The existence of things is to be known only from experience.
     From: John Locke (Essay Conc Human Understanding (2nd Ed) [1694], 4.03.31)
     A reaction: This is the clearest statement you could wish for of the standard empiricist view of such things. Locke might take a broad view of experience, since he unshakably infers the existence of God from merely thinking about being.