commemorative thinking

is another, more poetic name for formal indication.

Heidegger says that we can only see this by stepping away from the kind of thinking that represents things as objects, and toward the kind that he calls “commemorative thinking” or “meditative thinking.” These bulky-sounding terms simply refer to a kind of thinking that does not represent things as objects viewed from the outside, but points toward their mysterious inwardness as unique events. In the early lecture courses, he had called this process “formal indication,” but now gives it a more poetic title.

commemorative thinking, n.Definitions

commemorative thinking