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Time (n.) in ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠its existential sense inheres in each state — dereliction, fall, project — and is not a container they flow through; clock-time, a succession of moments, is a reification due to the fall.

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Time (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠not a frame in which human existence is situated; its authentic temporalization is precisely the understanding of being.

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Time (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠not a property of reality but the very fact of being: to exist is to be temporalized.

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Time (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠what idealism must evade to make the subject a subject: for Leibniz an obscure perception, for Kant a mask over true subjectivity, for Hegel something spirit is thrust into.

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Consciousness (n.) does ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠not first exist and then transcend itself; it transcends itself throughout its existence.

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Consciousness (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠only an abstraction next to concrete man: illumination arbitrarily cut off from history and existence.

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Consciousness (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠no longer the starting point; its basis is sought in a more fundamental notion of being — the existence of Dasein.

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Anguish (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the mood in which the insignificance, the nothingness, of every object in the world becomes accessible — not inferred, but felt as anguishing.

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Anguish (n.) swallows ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠up every thing in the world yet returns Dasein to the world as world — saving it from its dispersion into things and handing it back to itself.

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A Fact (n.) of ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠Dasein is not something we stand before — we are this fact, and it is understood from the inside, unlike the alien facts of empiricism.

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A Fact (n.) in ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠its most dramatic sense is having been thrown into the world, abandoned and delivered up to oneself; the facts of science are only derivative.

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Fall (n.) into ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠everyday life is an inner possibility of authentic existence: Dasein must authentically possess itself in order to be lost.

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Fall (n.) or ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠Verfallen is Dasein shunning its authentic existence to understand itself from its tools: it is what it does, the social role it professes.

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Understanding (n.) does ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠not calmly register a destiny; qua understanding it creates it.

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Understanding (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠taking care: to understand being is to exist in such a way that one takes care of one's own existence.

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Dasein (n.) does ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠not have possibilities; it is its possibilities — a structure inconceivable in the world of things.

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Dasein (n.) means ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠"being right-there," a verb rather than a noun, because each element of man's essence is a way of existing, of being situated there.

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A Tool (n.) cannot ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠be revealed by even the most penetrating contemplative gaze; only handling it gives access to it.

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A Tool (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠never a separate entity: it is always "in view of" something, in tandem with other tools, and exists most truly when it recedes into its function.

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Affectivity (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠not a sign or symptom of our existence; it is that existence itself.

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Affectivity (n.) always ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠points two ways — toward what one fears or enjoys, and back toward oneself, as the reflexive grammar of being delighted or frightened betrays.

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Being (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠not an attribute of a be-ing — and its meaning, long declared undefinable because too general, is for Heidegger the fundamental problem of philosophy.

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Being (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠revealed to Dasein not as a concept one contemplates but in an internal striving — the concern Dasein has for its own existence.