either - or

is not the exclusive either or (i.e. Either black or white) but rather the non-exclusive either or (i.e. Either I can take a walk or I can go to the movies [or, if time allows, maybe even both).

For Heidegger, human existence has two possible fundamental ways of constituting itself: it can constitute itself either inauthentically or authentically. This ' 'either or'' is not Kierkegaard's either or which is strictly exclusive: either he passed the exam or he did not. One possibility excludes the other. There are two expressions in Latin for either or. The exclusive either or is aut aut. But the Latin has a non-exclusive expression for either or: vel vel. An example of this kind of either or might be: either I can take a walk or I can go to the movies. If I have enough time, I could do both. The two do not necessarily exclude each other.

 eventually disappears, not because he has chosen, but because he has refrained from it, which also can be expressed by saying: Because others have chosen for him'or because he has lost himself.

[T]here eventually comes a moment where it is no longer a matter of an Either/Or, not because he has chosen, but because he has refrained from it, which also can be expressed by saying: Because others have chosen for him'or because he has lost himself.

either or, n.All

either or