The phenomenological world is not the bringing to explicit expression …

Maurice Merleau-Ponty
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The phenomenological world is not the bringing to explicit expression of a pre-existing being, but the laying down of being. Philosophy is not the reflection of a pre-existing truth, but, like art, the act of bringing truth into being. ✨ Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1962). Phenomenology of Perception, p.19, Psychology Press
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