As we there are
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Jump to navigationJump to search- da wir da sind: (German) as we exist, since we exist → the German transliterates into English as as we there are
- Dasein: (German) being, existence, especially in the metaphysical sense → this term was used in this technical sense by a number of German philosophers, most notably Ludwig Feuerbach and Martin Heidegger (Sein und Zeit, "Being and Time", 1927) → see Tea tea too oo
- As ... oo: this opening paragraph begins with A (alpha) and ends with a long O (omega), the first and last letters of the Greek alphabet → are we being told that in this chapter we are gong to trace the evolution of the world from beginning to end, from creation to annihilation?
