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A Further Discussion of “Formal Indication”

Phenomenology & Heidegger2012.06.25
A Further Discussion of “Formal Indication”
Watching Jing Qi struggle on the issue of “this” and formal indication, I can’t help but keep pushing back, and for that reason I have also read, intermittently, some material on Heidegger’s early concept of “formal indication,” gradually coming to some understanding. Basically speaking, I have never placed much weight on the concept of “formal indication” (formale Anzeige, 形式指引), for several reasons: first, the phrase feels too Westernized, too specialized, and is easily read as jargon, leaving outsiders completely baffled. If there is a more plain and straightforward way of putting it, then there is no need to go through this phrase at all; second, this concept belongs to the…
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2012年6月25日
Knowledge Is Connection

AI & the Future of Technology2012.05.28
Knowledge Is Connection
Earlier I spoke of “phenomenological education,” which also made me recall the as-yet-unwritten essay I mentioned last year, “Knowledge Is Linkage.” Why is it that I, someone just about to begin a PhD dissertation on “media ontology,” “ have suddenly, and quite off the beaten track, decided to take up “education”? Have I changed direction? Of course not. My turn toward educational questions is on the one hand driven by my interest in Neil Postman (who is in essence an educational theorist), and on the other hand it is also a question I have long cared about. In fact, the question of education involves the whole range of philosophy, from…
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2012年5月28日
The Distanting and Severing of “This”

Philosophy & Thought2012.04.19
The Distanting and Severing of “This”
Today in the discussion session, Ban Jingqi gave a presentation, and I could clearly feel that Jingqi was in high spirits—especially at the very end, when he hoisted up the blackboard to discuss Heidegger, he looked full of swagger and dash, seeming even more spirited than before he fell ill. Congratulations, congratulations~ After the classroom discussion, Jingqi also sent emails and posted on Weibo to continue the discussion, and I wrote a long response as well. Since he is also happy to publish it publicly, I might as well repost it on the blog too~ As for Jingqi’s original text, I have directly pasted his long Weibo post here (see…
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2012年4月19日
Theses on Media Ontology

History of Science & Scholarship2010.08.09
Theses on Media Ontology
Abstract: As a philosophical program, media ontology points to a new philosophical line of thought whose origins lie in traditions associated with thinkers such as Heidegger and McLuhan. Media ontology develops its thinking around the everyday meaning of the concept of media, but it seeks to go beyond the everyday understanding of media as a neutral conduit for transmitting messages. Media, as the “extension of man,” also prompts us to rethink media as a way of understanding human nature. Media ontology implies an anthropology that transcends traditional dualism, and it is both a continuation and a surpassing of the Western classical philosophical tradition. Modern philosophy “discovered media,” but media ontology…
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2010年8月9日
Phenomenology Notes 4: Speech and Propositions, Ready-to-Hand and Present-at-Hand

Philosophy & Thought2010.04.29
Phenomenology Notes 4: Speech and Propositions, Ready-to-Hand and Present-at-Hand
I’ve read quite a lot over the past two weeks, but because I’ve been bottling up a paper I haven’t managed to write notes in time. Still, I’ll jot down a few lines offhand, since this may also have something to do with the paper I’m about to write (about Heidegger’s ready-to-hand and guidance, and so on), so I won’t follow the order of the books. In other philosophy, especially early analytic philosophy, language is often analyzed as proposition, and what is called “truth” is also taken to be some kind of proposition or something that corresponds to a proposition. For example, Tarski said, “‘It is raining’ if and only…
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2010年4月29日
Theory Is Not Merely a Set of Propositions or Statements; A Theoretical System Cannot Be Self-Contained

Philosophy & Thought2007.05.05
Theory Is Not Merely a Set of Propositions or Statements; A Theoretical System Cannot Be Self-Contained
Recently I’ve talked about the relevant issues twice: (studying Wittgenstein, without any tidying up, just pasting the chat log~) “Is theory a set of propositions? Agree or not?”—— A proposition, a declarative sentence, in itself has no meaning if you do not know the meaning of each word in it, but the meaning of words cannot be given entirely within a set of propositions; ultimately, the meaning of words still has to involve referential definitions, so it is bound to draw in practical activity and the question of the way we contemplate the world. “Can a system close itself off?”—— A system cannot close itself off A theoretical system is…
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2007年5月5日