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Subject:Re: Being existent (HUMOR) From:"Pickett-Harner, Molly" <mop1 -at- NIORDS1 -dot- EM -dot- CDC -dot- GOV> Date:Mon, 11 Sep 1995 09:50:00 EST
Well...there is this disgraceful description of the death of Rene Descartes:
Descartes is in a bar having a drink.
Bartender asks if he'd like another.
Descartes says, "I think not."
Molly Pickett-Harner
mop1 -at- niords1 -dot- em -dot- cdc -dot- gov
harner -at- access -dot- mountain -dot- net
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From: Price, Becca
I think, therefore I'm not.
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Subject: Re. Being existent
Date: Friday, September 08, 1995 1:04PM
Jim Garner asked for the difference between
"being" and "existence". Well, Jim, that's an easy
one: the former is the present participle of the
verb "to be", whereas the latter is a simple noun
(falling under the "state of _being_" category).
To paraphrase Jim, "You're not really being, you
just think you are." <grin>
Oh! You meant "philosophically"? That's a tougher
one. I vaguely recall something about the ability
to exist (as a stone exists) without being, but
the inability to be without existing. Does that
help a bit more?
--Geoff Hart @8^{)}
geoff-h -at- mtl -dot- feric -dot- ca
