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7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 3. Being / h. Dasein (being human)

12932	The idea of being must come from our own existence [Leibniz]
	Full Idea: I would like to know how we could have the idea of being if we did not, as beings ourselves, find being within us.
	From: Gottfried Leibniz (New Essays on Human Understanding [1704], 1.01)
	A reaction: I could envisage a creature with an entirely 'externa' mind, that just focused on environment, and took its own place in it unthinkingly for granted. I suppose he's right, though.