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All presentation, all demonstration—and the presentation of thought is demonstration—has, according to its original determination—and this is all that matters to us—the cognitive activity of the other person as its ultimate aim.
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Z. Hanfi, trans., in The Fiery Brook (1972), p. 67

 

Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach

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