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Sunday, August 14, 2005
 
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Exploded View has some good stuff on the clearing and Plato's cave.
Heidegger's entdecken, comes from the Germanic word dick, which means thicket and also thick. "Ent-" serves the word like our English "un". Entdecken is the un-thicket-ing, or un-thicken-ing. Entdecken is to allow passage through the thicket, entdecken is the moment of aporia, the moment of penetration and thinking the clearing.
 
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And that's supposed to be deep? So what?
 
It's a good description of the term Entdecken--part of grasping Heidegger is understanding his vocabulary. And it is also indicative of the quality of the rest of Exploded View's post.
 
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