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She didn’t own anything, yet could have whatever she wanted. Exotic foods, furniture, entertainers, books, art…she only needed ask. And yet, when she was finished, it was removed. She had everything and nothing at the same time.
Warbreaker
Brandon Sanderson
Luria found that most remote villagers were not subject to the same optical illusions as citizens of the industrialized world, like the Ebbinghaus illusion.
Accordingly, on Heidegger’s view, the question of why there is something rather than nothing comes back to the choice of ‘being-there’. Dasein chooses to make something out of nothing and so, without Dasein, there would be nothing, according to Heidegger.
Philosophy 100 Essential Thinkers
Philip Stokes
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