PHIL1070 Study Guide - Final Guide: Substance Theory, Martin Heidegger, General Idea
11 Mar 2014
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Nowadays, when people forget how to say a word that refers to a certain item, they would sometimes give up thinking about it and end up calling it that that that thing. In contrast to that, back in the days, mentioning something as a thing would require more than to just giving up on thinking of the item"s name. If this statement does not apply to everyone back in the days, then it sure as well does apply to three specific philosophers of old times. These three intelligent people had very different ideas of what a thing" could be defined as. Heidegger, borned in the late-1890, perceived a thing in a backwards view of how people perceived things. He referred to a thing as defined by its thingness. Descartes, borned in the mid-1950, can see defining a thing when he describes his example of a piece of wax and its effect on the body and soul.
