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- The Cambridge Heidegger Lexicon
- Series page
- The Cambridge Heidegger Lexicon
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Using the Lexicon
- Chronology of Martin Heidegger
- Abbreviations for Heidegger’s Works
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
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- 167. Reality (Realität)
- 168. Reference (Verweisung)
- 169. Reflection (Besinnung)
- 170. Relation (Beziehung)
- 171. Releasement (Gelassenheit)
- 172. Remembrance (Erinnerung)
- 173. Repetition (Wiederholung)
- 174. Representation (Vorstellung)
- 175. Resoluteness (Entschlossenheit)
- 176. Resonating (Anklang)
- 177. Restraint (Verhaltenheit)
- 178. Rift (Riß)
- S
- T
- U
- V
- W
- German–English Glossary
- Bibliography
- Index
168. - Reference (Verweisung)
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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 April 2021
- The Cambridge Heidegger Lexicon
- Series page
- The Cambridge Heidegger Lexicon
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Using the Lexicon
- Chronology of Martin Heidegger
- Abbreviations for Heidegger’s Works
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- R
- 167. Reality (Realität)
- 168. Reference (Verweisung)
- 169. Reflection (Besinnung)
- 170. Relation (Beziehung)
- 171. Releasement (Gelassenheit)
- 172. Remembrance (Erinnerung)
- 173. Repetition (Wiederholung)
- 174. Representation (Vorstellung)
- 175. Resoluteness (Entschlossenheit)
- 176. Resonating (Anklang)
- 177. Restraint (Verhaltenheit)
- 178. Rift (Riß)
- S
- T
- U
- V
- W
- German–English Glossary
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
A reference is an essential structural feature of worldly entities, namely, the way such entities always send or direct their user to something else. The German word for “reference” – Verweisung – Verweisung – is also sometimes translated “assignment.” The verb verweisen means to refer in the sense of literally sending one person to another person, in the way that a doctor refers a patient to a specialist. References are constitutive of equipment, because “strictly speaking, there ‘is’ never just one equipment. To the being of equipment a whole of equipment always belongs.
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- The Cambridge Heidegger Lexicon , pp. 622 - 623Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021