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Familiarity (n.) does ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠not exist for thinking: to it, nothing is ever familiar.

Familiarity (n.) with ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the world is what every concern already rests on — and the soil in which Dasein can lose itself, fascinated by what it meets.

Familiarity (n.) hides ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠enigma after enigma: what is so familiar we never pay heed to it is precisely what is darkest to philosophy.

Familiarity (n.) at ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠its origin is not with what we know first, but with what was entrusted to our nature before all else and becomes known only at the last.

Familiarity (n.) with ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠beings lies in dealing with them, not looking at them: stand in a shoemaker's shop and you see extant things, but not his world.

Familiarity (n.) with ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the world, the tranquil feeling of being at home in it, is a mode of uncanniness, not the reverse; not-being-at-home is the more primordial phenomenon.

Familiarity (n.) with ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the world does not require that the world be transparent to theory; it is the reverse — every theory of the world grows out of this familiarity.

Familiarity (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠absent from many beings as they first confront us — unfamiliarity is positively distinctive of them; most things we merely know something about, without knowing how to manage them.