In Section 74 we continue following Heidegger’s meditations on science as “knowledge of an essential truth experienced in advance.” Via science’s determinate direction of explainability, we are enmeshed in a nexus of cause-effect relations that places everything under its jurisdiction of explanation and produces historiological machination via the perpetual instituting of “correct findings.” We connect this to the religiosity of modal logic and the ways in which its epistemology perpetuates the panic of possible worlds inherent to liberalism and anxiety.

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