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With such understandings of spatiality and temporality, thinking is not about revealing or discovering what is outside there, but is about creatively imagining what could be. Lodged in the shifting ground permeated by disappearance and nothingness, thinking is the movement to produce “presence” out of absence, “unity” out of fragmentation. As such, “presence” is not what reflects or reveals reality, but a new form of semblance that evokes what is lingering beyond. Imagination is evocation.
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Husserl, “Inaugural Lecture,” 11.
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Husserl, Formal and Transcendental Logic, 310.
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Husserl, “Inaugural Lecture,” 11.
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Maurice Blanchot, The Infinite Conversation, trans. Susan Hanson (Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 1993), 70.
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Lawlor, “What Immanence? What Transcendence?” 28.
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I am aware of all the recent developments in epistemological theories and the changed understandings of knowledge. Here, I am only referring to the long-standing tradition that still plays a dominant role in science as well as social science.
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From the TV series, Big Bang Theory.
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Zhao, G. (2020). Spatiality, Temporality, and Thinking. In: Subjectivity and Infinity. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-45590-3_13
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