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Can language state the ultimate truth?

Direct answer

Language can distinguish and test but does not replace concrete happening. In Chapter 16 of Being, speech and writing belong within happening; Chapter 21 lets the name rest without erasing particular lives and differences.

Further explanation

Being does not position the author outside the world being described: speech, writing and reading happen within it. The final chapter allows names to rest while preserving concrete facts, conditions and differences. Limits of language do not license evasive or untestable assertions.

Core concepts

Inexhaustible, Yet Becoming Being Explained Concept and Becoming

Primary sources

《在》第 16、21 章

Conclusions that must not be drawn

Language does not replace concrete happening; limits of expression do not make all judgments invalid.

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Must even the highest concept be let go?Why is there this world at all, rather than nothing?If even the highest concept and the observer are withdrawn, what is left in the end?If a highest concept cannot be withdrawn, is it still a tool that points to the truth, or has it already become a new substance?

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