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Newguest Posted 18 years ago
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a or the
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There's the sentence: "...it refers to the feeling-awareness that we experience as "a" or "the" primary aspect of being or being a self." How should I understand "a" or "the"? I suppose there must be some difference in meaning, but I don't know what this difference is?
thanks
There's the sentence: "...it refers to the feeling-awareness that we experience as "a" or "the" primary aspect of being or being a self." How should I understand "a" or "the"? I suppose there must be some difference in meaning, but I don't know what this difference is?
thanks
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The writer is suggesting that there may be several (' a ') or only one (' the ') primary aspect(s) of being.
- The writer is suggesting that there may be several (' a ') or only one (' the ') primary aspect(s) of being.
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The writer is suggesting that there may be several ('a') or only one ('the') primary aspect(s) of being.
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You might try thinking of it as "one of several aspects or the only aspect". The author is not committing himself to the truth of either one alone. He doesn't claim to know if there is one or if there are several such aspects.
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