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Rather it stands for a kind of ontological Big Bang, for the primordial— I cite
So we have an ontological issue about the identity of apocalypses across possible worlds.— Crooked Timber
Could it be that Tapper finds this story believable -- ontological reality in his mind since he's unable to differentiate between his opinion and fact -- because it meshes with his own predisposition to believe in the good war / bad war distinction?— The Jawa Report
If this is the case, Meillassoux's question about the emergence of givenness from a time that is not the time of givenness is merely an empirical question, not an ontological question.— Larval Subjects .
Thus, in his view: "sadomasochistic sexuality would be a kind of melodramatic version of the constitution of sexuality itself, and the marginality of sadomasochism would consist of nothing less than its isolating, even its making visible, the ontological grounds of the sexual."— 1tbm

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