Being-in-the-World Quotes

“Facts and rules are by themselves meaningless to capture what Heidegger calls significance or involvement; they must be assigned relevance. But the predicates that must be added to define relevance are just more meaningless facts. You can't capture it with a definition. And paradoxically, the more facts the computer is given—the harder it is to compute what is relevant to the current situation.”
― Hubert L. Dreyfus, Being-in-the-World: A Commentary on Heidegger's Being and Time, Division I

“Facts and rules are by themselves meaningless to capture what Heidegger calls significance or involvement; they must be assigned relevance.”
― Hubert L. Dreyfus, Being-in-the-World: A Commentary on Heidegger's Being and Time, Division I