xmca@weber.ucsd.edu writes:
Michael wrote:
>
>
>Phil, i discovered only after thinking about this text for a while
>that it is in your signature and didn't necessarily pertain to my
>note.
>
>But having started, do you know Ric¦ur's discussion of identity, the
>distinction between ipse-identity and idem-identity? (in Oneself as
>Another).
i'm totally ignorant of this author except by name - what's the
citation - if any - that you're thinking of and i'll check it out - i'm
totally perplexed by what constitutes identity just now these days.
phillip
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The English noun "identity" comes, ultimately, from the
Latin adverb "identidem", which means "repeatedly."
The Latin has exactly the same rhythm as the English,
buh-BUM-buh-BUM - a simple iamb, repeated; and
"identidem" is, in fact, nothing more than a
reduplication of the word "idem", "the same":
"idem(et)idem". "Same(and) same". The same,
repeated. It is a word that does exactly what
it means.
from "The Elusive Embrace" by Daniel
Mendelsohn.
phillip white
third grade teacher
doctoral student http://ceo.cudenver.edu/~hacms_lab/index.htm
scrambling a dissertation
denver, colorado
phillip_white@ceo.cudenver.edu
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