Then he goes down the linguistic rabbit hole. "To lay means to bring to lie. Thus, to lay is at the same time to place one thing beside another, to lay them together. To lay is to gather."

He goes on to say that gathering is inherent to laying. "Every gathering is already a laying."

So, this question, "How does the proper sense of this word, to lay, come to mean saying and talking?" isn’t really relevant. When we ask that question, we’re assuming that the meaning has ADVANCED from one form to another. Heidegger says that there was no advancement: these meanings are still there, contained within the act of talking and telling.

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