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Any jest in your back pocket that you would like to share with us.... Anonymous?
https://www.jstor.org/stable/30227158#:~:text=into%20the%20theory%20of%20demonstratives,actual'%20and%20'present'.
^Hm, are we looking for philosophical treatments of "here"? I found one in everyone's favorite book, Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit. I'll just copy secs. 97 and 98. (A.V. Miller translation.)
"97. It is as a universal too that we utter what the sensuous [content] is. What we say is: 'This', i.e., the universal This; or, 'it is', i.e., Being in general. Of course, we do not envisage the universal This or Being in general, but we utter the universal; in other words, we do not strictly say what in this sense-certainty we mean to say. But language, as we see, is the more truthful; in it, we ourselves directly refute what we mean to say, and since the universal is the true [content] of sense-certainty and language expresses this true [content] alone, it is just not possible for us ever to say, or express in words, a sensuous being that we mean.
"98. The same will be the case with the other form of the 'This', with 'Here'. 'Here' is, e.g., the tree. If I turn round, this truth has vanished and is converted into its opposite: 'No tree is here, but a house instead'. 'Here' itself does not vanish; on the contrary, it abides constant in the vanishing of the house, the tree, etc., and is indifferently house or tree. Again, therefore, the 'This' shows itself to be a mediated simplicity, or a universality."
J.N. Findlay's paraphrase:
"97. In the use of demonstrative words there is a conflict between what we really say and what we mean to say (our Meinung, was wir meinen). We mean to express what is ultimately individual, but this is inexpressible; all we succeed in expressing is what is universal.
"98. The demonstrative 'Here' behaves exactly like the demonstrative 'Now', and always changes its application. It is therefore a case of pure universality. We cannot pin down the individual position qua individual, only individuality in general."
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