The Recognizability of Recognition: Fragments in the Name of a Not Yet Rhetorical Question

Philosophy and Rhetoric 48 (4):379-412 (2015)
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The absolute relation of name to knowledge-recognition [Erkenntnis] exists only in God; only there is name, because it is inwardly identical with the creative word, the pure medium of knowledge-recognition [Erkenntnis]. This means that God made things knowable-recognizable [erkennbar] in their names. Man, however, names them according to knowledge-recognition [Erkenntnis]. An act is—in connection with the perfected state of the world—not what happens now or “soon”: a demand cannot demand, or command anything now. They enter disjointedly, in symbolic concepts, into the now of knowability-recognizability [das Jetzt der Erkennbarkeit], for this now is filled and governed exclusively by..

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