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So, ‘sensation’ and ‘judgment’ have together lost their apparent clearness: we have observed that they were clear only as long as the prejudice in fav...more

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Science and philosophy have for centuries been sustained by unquestioning faith in perception. Perception opens a window on to things. This means that...more

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If I walk along a shore towards a ship which has run aground, and the funnel or masts merge into the forest bordering on the sand dune, there will be ...more

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The phenomenological world is not the bringing to explicit expression of a pre-existing being, but the laying down of being. Philosophy is not the ref...more

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Being established in my life, buttressed by my thinking nature, fastened down in this transcendental field which was opened for me by my first percept...more

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The body is our general medium for having a world.

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The destruction of sight, wherever the injuries be sustained, follows the same law: all colours are affected in the first place, and lose their saturati...more

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This also means that philosophy itself must not take itself as established in the truths it has managed to utter, that philosophy is an ever-renewed e...more

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The perception of other people and the intersubjective world is problematic only for adults. The child lives in a world which he unhesitatingly believ...more

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Language signifies when instead of copying thought it lets itself be taken apart and put together again by thought. Language bears the sense of though...more