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fortwähren

Fortwähren means "to endure permanently." Johann Wolfgang von Goethe combines this term with gewähren--"to grant"--to create the coinagefortgewähren, which Heidegger takes up to connect the idea of granting with that of "something that endures."

See page 336.

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