tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1438289051411770399.post310097994662684078..comments2024-03-28T09:51:55.365-06:00Comments on ECOLOGY WITHOUT NATURE: Response 2.0Timothy Mortonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05067377804366363020noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1438289051411770399.post-49817296808299197642011-10-20T08:10:18.141-05:002011-10-20T08:10:18.141-05:00A thought, Tim, what I'm calling facets appear...A thought, Tim, what I'm calling facets appears to be what Harman calls <i>sensual</i> objects, which is, as you know, his relabeling of what Brentano called intentional objects. Harman futher distinguishes between sensual objects and their properties, e.g. "In all phenomenal experience there is a tension between sensual objects and their sensual qualities" (<i>The Quadruple Object</i>, p. 26).<br /><br />And that, I think, is an important distinction. As you may know, I'm fond of thinking that <a href="http://new-savanna.blogspot.com/2011/10/vitalism-iii-weird-matter-and.html" rel="nofollow">objects have an unbounded number of properties</a> (that is, qualities). A given sensual object, however, can itself have many properties. The sensual object, then, that is 'bound' into (is a facet of?) a mesh will have many properties that it presents to the mesh.Bill Benzonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08360044945265178991noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1438289051411770399.post-62512161970998708612011-10-20T06:56:54.149-05:002011-10-20T06:56:54.149-05:00I don't see the question, Tim. It's not as...I don't see the question, Tim. It's not as though objects completely enter into the mesh. An object is only going to offer a single <i>facet</i>, if you will, to the mesh. All its other facets are, as Hamrman says, withdrawn. Some of them, of course, might well be 'offered' to other meshes. It's this uncounted number of facets that gives an object 'weight' and 'heft'. Without heft, without a capacity for withdrawal, an object brings little to the mesh. <br /><br />It's those withdrawn facets that give the mesh itself 'weight' and 'heft'. That multiplicity of withdrawn facets distributed over many objects is what entwines the mesh in the world. What's interesting about the mesh is that, at any time, any object can 'expose' another fact to the mesh. Thus an object's 'inventory' of withdrawn facets is a measure of its capacity to enrich the mesh.<br /><br />In short, if objects couldn't withdraw, their ability to enter into relationships would be meaningless.Bill Benzonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08360044945265178991noreply@blogger.com