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would then be: persistence in contours over and against contourlessness; and compliance: return to contourlessness.

In both, noncompliance as well as compliance, a contourlessness shows itself. It ordains that what appears as such is noncompliant, and it has at its disposal what compliance is and the fact that compliance is: abandonment of contours. The contourlessness, thus the limitlessness, would then be what by ordaining disposes of the noncompliance and the compliance, i.e., their opposition. To give way reciprocally, however, is appearance, i.e., Being. The contourlessness and limitlessness show themselves first and last in all appearance (stepping forth and receding)—they have priority and preeminence. The limitless is what disposes of compliance and noncompliance, i.e., disposes of the Being of beings.2

On the basis of the essence of appearance as emerging entrance into contours, we have clarified what the noncompliance can consist in and what compliance can mean.



2. What lets Being essentially occur. Being and only Being essentially occurs.


The Beginning of Western Philosophy (GA 35) by Martin Heidegger

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