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“The senses do not enable us to cognize any entity in its Being; they merely serve to announce the ways in which 'external' Things within-the-world are useful or harmful for human creatures encumbered with bodies....they tell us nothing about entities in their Being.”

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Martin Heidegger

German philosopher and a pioneer of existentialism, known for works such as 'Being and Time'. more

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