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+===== HEIDEGGER'S QUESTION OF BEING =====
+More precisely, Heidegger's question of being is: what does it mean to be? What does Heidegger mean by "meaning"? Not linguistic meaning but intelligibility more broadly construed: "Meaning is that wherein the intelligibility (Verstandlichkeit) of something maintains itself. That which is articulable in an understanding disclosure we call 'meaning' . . . Meaning is that... in terms of which something as something is intelligible" (151). Granted, Being and Time begins with a passage from Plato 's Sophist in which the Stranger asks Theaetetus what he means when he says "being" (the participle ov in Greek), "for we, who formerly imagined we knew, are now at a loss." Heidegger then asks, "Do we today have an answer to the question concerning what we really mean when we use the expression 'being' (seiend)? Not at all" (1). A few pages later Heidegger reiterates the question of "what we really mean by the expression 'being' (Sein)" (11).
+These formulations make it sound as if the question of being is a question about the meaning of the word "being," but it is important to see that this is not the case; Heidegger's question is not a question of semantics. Heidegger often talks, for pedagogical and expository reasons, about what we mean when we say "to be" or "is" or "am," but the words with which we express our understanding of being are for him neither the only nor even the most important manifestation of that understanding. We understand equipment (Zeug) by using it (86) competently, we understand objects by recognizing and responding to them intelligently, and we understand ourselves in all our distinctively human behaviors and practices. Using words is just one of many ways in which we exhibit our understanding of being.
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