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Light itself is incipient meaning, suspending the opposit... — Carmelics

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Light itself is incipient meaning, suspending the opposition between the a priori and the a posteriori

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1.Heidegger began a hermeneutic deformalizing of Husserl's phenomenological consciousness by seeking what lies hidden beneath phenomena
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2.Levinas extended this deformalizing gesture in 1947 by arguing that meaning is embedded in perceptual experience itself
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1.Kant demonstrated that the a priori/a posteriori distinction is logically prior to any phenomenological account of perceptual experience.
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2.A phenomenological description of how light 'feels' meaningful cannot dissolve a transcendental distinction without first engaging its epistemic justification.
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1.Sellars' critique of the Myth of the Given shows that treating perceptual immediacy as intrinsically meaningful conflates causal and normative orders.
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2.If light carries incipient meaning pre-reflectively, Levinas must explain how this meaning is normatively binding without invoking the conceptual apparatus he claims to suspend.
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In the fourteen years separating Existence and Existents and Time and the Other from Totality and Infinity, we see both continuities and differences. If Heidegger had begun what he conceived to be a hermeneutic deformalization of Husserl’s phenomenological consciousness, seeking what “lies hidden” beneath phenomena (he-BT: §7c), then Levinas extended this deformalizing gesture already in 1947, arguing that light itself is incipient meaning, suspending the opposition between the a priori and the

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