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On 4 Aug 2001, at 23:04, Bill Spight wrote:
> Dear Joe,
>
> > > > But illusions of self do arise with thoughts such as "I might
> > > > have been a giraffe." The "I" in that sentence is just a
> > > > pronoun, not a self. ;-)
> > > >
> > That's right, but the word "I" does have a referent, that is, it
> > stands for something other than itself, which is what words do, and
> > guess what that referent is? (Clue: "I" is the self-referential
> > pronoun).
> > >
>
> That's from me, not Ted. :-)
>
> I stated it clumsily, I guess, but what I meant was that the "I" in
> that sentence only appears to have a referent, it does not actually
> have one.
>
Oh, it has one, all right, as Heidegger stated, "Dasein is in each
case MINE." BTW, if there were no referential self for the pronoun
"I", then just exactly who would it be that it would APPEAR to have
a referent TO/FOR?
>
> Best,
>
> Bill
>
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