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Monday, May 08, 2006
 
Paper? Now you see it, now you see it.
I see white paper. But this is a twofold seeing; there are two visions: sensous vision and categorical vision. The difficult lies in the double signification of seeing--a double signification that already governs Plato's philosophy. The difficulty consists in that if I see white paper, I do not see the substance in the same way "as" I see the white paper. Antisthenes already expressed this diffuiculty for Plato: "O Plato, I surely see the horse, but I do not see horsehood."

P. 66-67
Paperhood, the form for the categorical intuition of paperness.
 
Comments:
If there can be a double signification, why not a double nihilation?
 
A pencil with an eraser at both ends.
 
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