objectifying

is only possible because the relationships between beings is already there, prior to any individual entities, since individual things can only arise from the total system of meaning.

We must already have risen above them in advance, before forming any theory, and realized that they held more in reserve than what we saw on their surfaces. All objectifying presupposes transcendence. Indeed, the world itself presupposes Dasein: just as there would be no truth without Dasein, Heidegger says there would be no world without Dasein. Nonetheless, the relationships of meaning found between tools in the world are not a human gridwork superimposed by Dasein on a neutral set of materials. The relationships between beings are prior to any individual entities, since individual things can only arise from the total system of meaning.

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objectifying