the nice thing about developing note-taking is it makes it easier to catch ideas in the brief period between when they present themselves to you and when they become concealed as obvious
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here's Liberman talking about the 20 seconds between insight and boredom in coffee tasters finding a taste:https://youtu.be/5gXNOGODA1Q?t=1214 …
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relatedly, what does "always already" mean- i thought it was referring to forgetting the historical process by which the elements of a situation were objectivated but that appears to be covered by "concealed" and the explanations i see aren't making things clearer
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Actually true story from my dissolute youth: this unavailable woman I was in love with went down on me with the proviso that I had to keep explaining Heidegger, and if I stopped, she stopped, and if I slowed down, she slowed down.
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Silly stories aside, I’d like to be helpful, but it’s been decades since I’ve read B&T and anything I say may be wrong.
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That said, I think that, to the extent “always already” needs amplification, it’s gesturing at "ontologically primordial," where "ontologically" in B&T means "in terms of Being" rather than "in terms of beings" and 1/2
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"primordial" means it's inherent in the structure of Being rather than "temporally prior." This is sortof explained in Ch11 of BitW, esp 200ff. That chapter also explains how science works, and looking at it now I'm realizing I need to review it as I'm writing the Eggplant book.
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