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[from 'Being and Time' by Martin Heidegger, in 7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 6. Criterion for Existence ]

Full Idea

Ontology is possible only as phenomenology.

Gist of Idea

Ontology is possible only as phenomenology

Source

Martin Heidegger (Being and Time [1927], p.31), quoted by Dale Jacquette - Ontology Ch.1

Book Reference

Jacquette,Dale: 'Ontology' [Acumen 2002], p.20


A Reaction

Jacquette argues against this claim. The idea seems to be the ultimate extension of Kant, and it is not a big move to say that the only real phenomenology we can discuss is our semantics. Wrong, wrong, wrong.