Tuesday, September 6, 2011

Will and Existential Knowledge

'Objective' knowledge is based on the representation of an encounter of Will with some object, articulated as 'there is something there', with that 'something' serving as the substratum subsequent predication. Thus, the 'existential quantifier' of contemporary Propositional Logic, 'there is an x', to which is conjoined, 'such that x is P', accurately formulates the basic proposition of objective knowledge. Similarly, the Existentialist doctrine, 'Existence precedes Essence'--i. e. that something is precedes what it is--typically applied to the subjects of experience, also accurately pertains to the objects of experience. Hence, it does not seem inappropriate to characterize the fundamental stratum of objective knowledge as 'existential' knowledge.

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