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Because phenomena, as understood phenomenologically, are never anything but what goes to make up Being, while Being is in every case the Being of some entity, we must first bring forward the entities themselves if it is our aim that Being should be laid bare; and we must do this in the right way. These entities must likewise show themselves with the kind of access which genuinely belongs to them. And in this way, the ordinary conception of the phenomenon becomes phenomenologically relevant. If our analysis is to be authentic, its aim is such that the primary task of assuring ourselves ‘phenomenologically’ of that entity, which serves as our example, has already been prescribed as our point of departure.