segunda-feira, 8 de agosto de 2011

the same and the other

«Look at your watch […] and note that it is, let us say, noon. Say it and you will have enunciated a truth. Now write this on a piece of paper: “It is now noon”. At this point Hegel remarks that a truth cannot cease to be because of being formulated in writing. And now look at your watch again and reread the sentence you have written. You will see that the truth has been transformed into error, for it is now five minutes past noon.

What can be said, except that real being can transform a human truth into error – at least so far as the real is temporal and Time has an identity.»

Alexandre Kojève

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