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Tom Trelogan
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 Posted - Mar 15 2007 : 2:49:22 PM
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Lauren,
You’re obviously not having any problem using the forum! As the connections you still want to have made, I’m unclear what you're thinking about in each case—except, maybe, for the second item on your list. There, are you asking about the meaning of the word “cancellation” in passages such as this one from p. 88?
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It is really a question of two utterly different operations, which in this enquiry must necessarily support each other. Beauty, it is said, links together two condtions which are opposed to each other and can never become one. It is from this opposition that we must start; we must comprehend and recognize it in its whole purity and strictness, so that the two conditions are separated in the most definite way; otherwise, we are mixing but not uniting them. Secondly, it is said that Beauty combines these two conditions and thus removes the opposition. But since both conditions remain eternally opposed to one another, they can only be combined by cancellation. Our second business, then, is to make this combination perfect, to accomplish it so purely and completely that both conditions entirely disappear in a third, and no trace of the division remains behind in the whole; otherwise, we are isolating but not uniting them.
If so, this is certainly a good question, and we’ll definitely have to talk about it. Let me know if I’ve guessed correctly about what you were wondering about in this case.
As for the first and third items in your list, could you perhaps clarify what you're wondering about by connecting it with one or more passages in the book?
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