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160. - Possibility (Möglichkeit)

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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 April 2021

Mark A. Wrathall
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University of Oxford
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A possibility is “a possible way of being,” a field of meaningfully interconnected states of objects or events that might be actualized or realized (but need not be so actualized). To be a Dasein is unavoidably to be and to understand oneself in terms of possibilities. Possibility is a limit concept rather than logical possibility: the ontological structure of Dasein is finitude, defined by death, the impossibility of possibility or the possibility of utter impossibility.

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Print publication year: 2021

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