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Whitehead says: "Philosophy is the attempt to make manifest the fundamental evidence as to the nature of things....The aim of philosophy is sheer disclosure.... Our lives are passed in the experience of disclosure. As we lose this sense of disclosure, we are shedding the mode of functioning which is the soul. We are descending to mere conformity with the average of the past. Complete conformity means the loss of life." (Modes ofThoughtof Thought: 67,87).

If my interpretation of "Heidegger's existentialism" is at all right, however, "he's evidently explicating much the same fundamental insight -- not only formally, with respect to his understanding of philosophy itself as ontology and ontology asphenomenolgyas  phenomenology, but also materially, with respect to his understanding of humanexistencehuman existence. Consider, e.g., the following:

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