Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenology implicitly incorporates the Heideggerian notion that the Dasein must understand the meaning of the world around him, and each Dasein constructs a world for himself. Contrary to Kantian transcendentalism, I do not dwell in a numerically distinct world from my friend, the gap between which can only be bridged by precise and explicit language; but rather, we really do inhabit the same world, and the objects in it are not true (as though syllogistically) for all thinking minds, but “real” for all subjects that are in the same place as I am as I see what I see.

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