Like it David ...

" ... this deplorable confusion in that modern times have incorporated
'actuality' into logic and then, in distraction, forgotten that
'actuality' in logic is still only 'thought' actuality, i.e.
possibility."

Concepts couched in logic seem truer than they're due.

Do you know where that quote is from ? The little Kierkegaard I've
read I've struggled to get much out of so far.
Ian

On 12/9/07, David M <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Kierkegaard:
>
> To conceive something is to dissolve actuality into possibility -but then
> it is impossible to conceive it, because conceiving something is
> transforming
> it into possibility and so not holding on to it as actuality. But there's
> this
> deplorable confusion in that modern times have incorporated 'actuality' into
> logic and then, in distraction, forgotten that 'actuality' in logic is still
> only
> 'thought' actuality, i.e. possibility.
>
> quoted in the Times Literary Supplement this week
>
> David M
>
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