Figure 14.2
THE TERM "WORLD" (IN SCARE QUOTES) USED WITH REGARD TO THINGS
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1. an ontic concept ALL NATURAL THINGS IN THE UNIVERSE (substances: natural things) |
2. an ontological concept THE BEING OF ALL NATURAL THINGS IN THE UNIVERSE (substantiality: the being of natural things) |
THE TERM "WORLD" (WITHOUT SCARE QUOTES) USED WITH REGARD TO EX-SISTENCE
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3. an ex-sistential-personal concept A SPECIFIC SPHERE OF MEANING e.g., the world of carpentry (a specific world of meaning) |
4. an ex-sistential-structural concept THE BEING OF A SPECIFIC SPHERE OF MEANING e.g., the being of the world of carpentry (the being of a specific world of meaning) |
9. No. 1. Ontic: all things (or a set of things) in the universe. Here the word “world” (within scare quotes) is a thing-oriented concept referring to things in the universe, either all of them or a set of them, taken as just objects.
10. No. 2. Ontological: the being of all things (or of a set of things) in the universe. Here the word “world” (in scare quotes) refers to the being of things and can indicate
11. No. 3. Ontic-personal: a specific world of meaning. In this case, a specific meaning- giving world is ontic-ex-sistentiel. It refers to any lived sphere of meaning that a person inhabits, whether personally (a taxi driver’s world of traffic and customers) or socially (a labor union, a chess club).