Hi Ian

Afraid not, quoted in the TLS without reference.

Regards
David M

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "ian glendinning" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Friday, December 14, 2007 10:05 PM
Subject: Re: [MD] Kierkegaard on the possible


> 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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