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is a way of expressing the fact that World and thing do not stand next to each other as separate realities, but interpenetrate one another.

World and thing do not stand next to each other as separate realities, but interpenetrate one another. They are unified without melting together, in a middle ground that Heidegger calls “the between.” Language is nothing other than this between. The between is also called “the difference.” Heidegger had written years earlier of the ontological difference between being and specific beings. Then as now, being and beings are not separate, but interpenetrate one another and meet in a middle ground.

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