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The body is our general medium for having a world.

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Visible and mobile, my body is a thing among things; it's caught in the fabric of the world, and its cohesion is that of a thing. But, because it move...

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So, ‘sensation’ and ‘judgment’ have together lost their apparent clearness: we have observed that they were clear only as long as the prejudice in fav...

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Science and philosophy have for centuries been sustained by unquestioning faith in perception. Perception opens a window on to things. This means that...

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Speech is not a means in the service of an external end. It contains its own rule of usage, ethics, and view of the world, as a gesture sometimes bear...

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If I walk along a shore towards a ship which has run aground, and the funnel or masts merge into the forest bordering on the sand dune, there will be ...

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The phenomenological world is not the bringing to explicit expression of a pre-existing being, but the laying down of being. Philosophy is not the ref...

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The perception of other people and the intersubjective world is problematic only for adults. The child lives in a world which he unhesitatingly believ...

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Language signifies when instead of copying thought it lets itself be taken apart and put together again by thought. Language bears the sense of though...