philosophy is not a lexicon, it is not concerned with “word-meanings”, it does not seek a verbal substitute for the world we see, it does not transform it into something said, it does not install itself in the order of the said or of the written as does the logician in the proposition, the poet in the word, or the musician in the music. It is the things themselves, from the depths of their silence, that it wishes to bring to expression.
-Maurice Merleau-Ponty
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