The Way cannot be held to exist, nor can it be held to be
nonexistent.
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The Way
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as a name operates as a supposition
which is premised. Contingent causation and nonfacticity are
but one corner of things. What have they to do with the great
method? If words were satisfactory, we could speak the whole
day and it would all be about the Way; but if words are
unsatisfactory,
we can speak the whole day and it will all be
about things. The Way is the delimitation of things. Neither
words nor silence are satisfactory for conveying it.
Without
words and without silence, our deliberations reach their utmost
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mits.