[MD] Fw: For DMB: The transcendent and the gaps of experience

[David M]

Hi DMB

David M said to Krimel:
Experience is the ground, doubting it has no value, and to live we
differentiate and linguistically construct its contents, these
constructions
transcend experience, and one of these many transcendent aspects of
self-conscious linguistically differentiated experience is the world. Only
Dasein is world-ing, as Heidegger puts it.

dmb says:
Huh? The world transcends experience? I thought the MOQ asserts
approximately the opposite. It equates experience with reality. Anything
outside of experience is pure fiction. Isn't that the basic idea of
radical
empiricism; reality is limited to experience and no experience is excluded
from reality. You can't ignore anything nor make anything up. I find this
to
be exceedingly reasonable.
A transcendent world? I think Krimel was right to conjure up Kant's
things-in-themselves.

dmb

DM: As is obvious I agree experience=reality, the only reality we have.
 But there are things we construct from experience that go beyond what we
 are able to experience but we still need to grasp to understand experience.
 Wholes are one such example.Unless you get to go into space then you
 will never experience the whole world. Yet you need to grasp this
 transcendent notion to make sense of your limited experience.
 You have the creative ability to fill in the gaps in your experience.
 Another exampleis when a dog behind a tree, you can no longer
 see the dog, it transcends your phenomenal experience, but you
 know it is behind the tree, you fill in the gaps. In fact we seem
 able to fill in an infinite number of such gaps, a we have a full pass
 and access to the possible, which is another concept I think you need to
 grasp my friend. Gaps are fictions, but they can be as real as the dog
 behind the tree, in truth terms, and in terms of making sense
 of our experience. You'll like phenomenology when you get round to
 reading it.

 Thanks
 David M