Tezuka: [The problem is due] mainly to the confusion created by your ambiguous use of the word Sein.
Heidegger: My own thinking has a clear sense of the distinction between Sein as the Sein des Seienden [in metaphysics] and Sein as Sein with regard to its own proper sense, which is openness (the clearing).
Tezuka: Then why didn’t you immediately and decisively hand back the word “Sein” exclusively to the language of metaphysics? Why didn’t you immediately give your own name to what you were seeking as the “meaning of Sein” on your path through the essence of time?
Heidegger: How can I give a name to what I’m still searching for? Finding that would depend on assigning to it the word that would name it.
Tezuka: Then we have to endure the confusion that has arisen.
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