Posts Tagged ‘irad kimhi’
There is a well known letter that Mark Twain wrote to his friend Joe Twichell soon after the death of Twain’s wife ‘Livy’ which constantly returns to me. It has come to my mind more and more recently as I have had too many occasions to think about the death of someone I knew. In […]
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Tags: idealism, irad kimhi, mark fisher, mark twain, mourning, solipsism
The final chapter of Kimhi’s text (the quietism of the stranger) turns back to the general concerns regarding the Parmendies and the two way split of thought. After the Aristotelian marathon of the previous chapter Kimhi looks at how Plato addresses the figure of Parmenides and critiques him without committing parricide. As Kimhi has it, […]
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Tags: irad kimhi, Paramenides, plato, Sophist
The central chapter of Kimhi’s Thinking and Being wanders far into the Aristotelian weeds – arguing that consistent misreadings of the notion of being in Aristotle’s work has closed the possibility which Kimhi has attempted in the first half of the book to re-open – namely that thought must be considered as a two-way capacity for action. […]
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Tags: Aristotelian logic, assertion, Frege, irad kimhi, logic, WIttgenstein
The first chapter of Kimhi’s book (The Life of P) begins to outline why Kimhi thinks there is a form of thinking logic that is neither purely logical nor purely psychological nor operating between a hard divide between those aspects. He begins to do this by analyzing how the law or principle of contradiction has […]
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Tags: analytic continental divide, begriffschrift, contradiction, Frege, irad kimhi, Meillassoux, noncontradiction, WIttgenstein
This will be a first in a series of posts as we read through Kimhi’s book. I am going to write up some notes while reading through Kimhi’s Thinking and Being. I have written about it generally before here and here. Building off of Paramenides famous philosophical fragment Kimhi wants to (potentially) realign the entire enterprise of […]
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Tags: analytic continental divide, greek thought, irad kimhi, logic, Paramenides, predication
Naught Thought 