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4 In the sense of an alteration, i.e., a "change over into something else." (Trans.)
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Postscript to "What Is Metaphysics?"
1 The first publication of the "Postscript" (1943) was preceded by the epigraph: "'Metaphysics,' like the word 'abstract' and almost that of 'thinking' too, is a word from which more or less everyone flees, as though fleeing someone with the plague." Hegel (1770-1831), Werke XVII, p. 400. [Neither this note, nor the epigraph itself, appears in the first edition of Wegmarken. (Trans.)]
2 An existing translation by Werner Brock in Existence and Being (Chicago: H. Regnery, 1949), pp. 349-61, and an unpublished translation by Ferit Güven have also been consulted.
3 The words "metaphysically speaking" (metaphysisch gesprochen) do not appear in the first edition of Wegmarken. (Trans.)
4 Fourth edition, 1943: "presumably."a
5 Fourth edition, 1943: "never, however."
6 . . . als die von jener Stimme gestimmte Stimmung. Heidegger here plays on the proximity of the German word Stimme, meaning "voice," to Stimmung, "mood" or "attunement," and stimmen, to "attune." (Trans.)
7 Fourth edition, 1943: "Original thanking . . . [Das ursprüngliche Danken]."
8 " . . . in which it [being] is cleared and lets come to pass the singular event:"
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Fourth edition, 1 943: "The speechless response of thanking in sacrifice . . . . "10 Fourth edition, 1 943: "thanking."
11 Fourth edition, 1943: "thinking."
12 Fourth edition, 1943: "thoughtful recollection [Andenken]."
Letter on "Humanism"
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a Fourth edition, 1943: Within the truth of being, beyng prevails as the essence of the difference;
such beyng qua beyng, prior to the difference, is the event [Ereignis] and for this
reason without beings.
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