Dr. J. Glenn Friesen

Herman Dooyeweerd:
De Wijsbegeerte der Wetsidee (1935-36)
Excerpt on Epistemology, Volume II

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Notes regarding WdW II, 406

1. Corresponds to NC II, 471b

2. The logical object-side of reality is deepened. What does he mean by object-side? We know about law-side and subject-side.

3. The object side is unfolded in the concept of function. Does that mean that we cannot speak of function in naive thought?

4. The NC doesn't translate 'doordringen' [penetrate].

5. The NC adds to the end of third paragraph: "Empirical reality is doubtless not given in analytical dis-stasis; the latter can only function within the continuous coherence of cosmic time. But this dis-stasis is an objective possibility in the logical aspect of reality itself.

6. NC omits fourth paragraph.

Dooyeweerd is still trying to explain how the logical aspect has both the ability of epoché and the logical function of distinction. It is synthesis, not analysis, that causes the Gegenstand to arise. So his next question is how synthesis is possible. synthesis cannot be explained from out of the analytical mode [This is Dooyeweerd's disagreement with Strauss].

NC has statement: "The modal analytical aspect cannot explain this possibility, because it has been theoretically abstracted itself."

 

function belongs to theory, not naive experience. Naive experience is restricted to distinctions about things from the sensory perspective.

Epoché completes itself in deepened analysis abut it is not initiated there.