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The ontical nature of the canoe, Ed Groat grasped. Though not necessarily in that word. ‘Ontical’. Ed Groat didn’t know what that meant necessarily or definitively. Though, he knew what it signified, he just had no idea of the word signifying it. Ed Groat knew that the canoe was an object. An inanimate object. The canoe was an inanimate object in the world. Ed Groat knew that.
As he wheeled his pick up truck down Ludlow to Jefferson and Vine and onto Martin Luther King Boulevard, he thought of his truck in the ontical sense, but also in an ontological sense. Though, again, Ed Groat was unaware of the signifier ‘ontological,’ but was keenly aware that this particular dilapidated pick up truck helped him. The truck helped him to be employed. It helped him to go and sign the Lake Me naval battle contract with Henge. The pick up truck was an object in the world that helped Ed Groat engage in Worldhood.
So was the canoe an ontical or ontological device?
William Comparetto
© 2007