Karl Raschke (The Next Reformation) points out that Heidegger correctly identified one of the fundamental flaws in western philosophy and in particular western theology. The confusion of map for territory became institutionalized in the correspondence theory of truth. According to Heidegger, the syntax of language does not duplicate the structure of reality any more than a map reflects the territory. Being cannot be demonstrated by argument and inference; it can only be thought. We confuse presence with representation.

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