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>From: silber@orfeo.Eng.Sun.COM (Eric Silber)
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Subject: 'Verstand' AND Re: Causes and Goals
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In article <1992Mar16.003442.9891@husc3.harvard.edu> zeleny@zariski.harvard.edu (Mikhail Zeleny) writes:
[ various things and stuff ]

ES: Kantian 'Verstand' may be understood as the innate base set of
    symbols/functions which constitute the sine qua non of 'Reason'.
    These symbols correspond to evolution-conditioned functionally
    specialized cerebral subsystems.

MZ:
>\subsection{The Semantic Role of Volition.}
>
>Having estabilished a methodology for disambiguating textual meaning,
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 ( cf. "DiaCriticalMarx, vol. 1 , no. 1, pp -31 to -5 re: DiaStruction )

[ various things and stuff ]

>... Schopenhauer would disagree, but .....
>%... justly concluding that his symptoms {\it naturally mean} that he is
>%afflicted with a case of gonorrhoea, our hero is not justified in regarding
>
>Suppose that you wake up in the morning with a fever, catarrh, and runny
>eyes.  Following the rules of medical diagnostic, and taking into
[ more symptoms deleted ]
>       
>Thus
>the necessary condition for an occurrence of expressive meaning is
>intentional action, which depends on {\it noetic} agency.
...
>
The {\ceci-n'est-pas-italique noetic} agency of MZ. , viz. the
requisite intention is bound to the innate set of base symbols
(cf. above).


