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\title{Summary of First Lecture on Dasein}
\author{Greg Hudson}
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Dasein is the word we use to talk about people, in order to avoid
tangles with the English language.  In order to take a realistic look
at Dasein, we must reveal the identity of Dsein through Dasein's
engagement in projects and Dasein's role in those projects.  In fact,
since the projects exist independent of Dasein, we say that Dasein is
``thrown'' into various projects, and ``thrownness'' replaces
``involvement.''  (This method of observation is interesting in that
it resembles behaviorism at a first glance, but the principles of
observation are much less mechanistic and reductionist.)

As an exmaple, Consider the project of learning French.  The
reductionist description is that we memorize a long list of words,
learn rules of grammar, and thus learn how to make sentences.
Actually, however, we learn to internlize knowledge of French when we
gain familiarity, so that we can forget about the details such as
rules of grammar.  In a way, we learn to forget.  In this way,
learning structures itself into a repetition of the factical component
of a phenomenon, which we call Wiederholung, and, following
Wiederholung, an authentic familiarity with what was repeated.  It is
interesting that people often confuse spontaneity with innocence;
spontaneity actually comes with great familiarity with a phenomenon.

The kinds of ontological phonemona we derive while studying the
phenomenology of Dasein are called existentials.  Some existentials
are familiarity and disclosure.  Disclosure has ontic modes of
understanding and of emotional disclosure, which are equiprimordial
and both important in becoming familiar with a situation.

This approach to looking at learning opposes a couple of common myths:
the myth of rules, which states that we learn by learning rules and
applying those rules deductively to various situations; and the myth
of inference frmo general to particular, which states that we commonly
learn by collecting data and verifying hypotheses about the data.
Ordinarily, learning is not like this.

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