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, 407-408

1. Corresponds to NC II, 472-473.

2. The epoché is performed upon the continuity, the systasis, of cosmic time.

3. The excess of analysis is that which cannot be theoretically isolated by the analytic aspect. But didn't Dooyeweerd criticize a similar view of excess or residue within immanence thought?

4. Intuition is the temporal bottom layer of our act of thinking. Intuition is that which allows me to grasp the temporal coherence immediately, beyond all concepts. What does this mean?

5. Elsewhere Dooyeweerd says that individuality is given by the bottom layer of time. Is intuition the same as my temporal individuality? Is it my coherence within temporal reality, my ego? Dooyeweerd does not say. But there cannot be two bottom layers of time, so this makes sense. It also allows us to understand why we would be able to immediately understand the temporal coherence in our intuition if that temporal coherence were our own ego.