‘We have too long assumed (on the later Heidegger’s misleading suggestion) that this is a youthful work lacking direction, with no intrinsic connection to Being and Time. On the contrary, the most direct and vital connection exists between Scotus’s account of the intuition of singularity (haecceitas), Thomas of Erfurt’s grammatical modes (modis significando), Husserl’s categorial intuition, and the young Heidegger’s notion of “hermeneutical intution” of the fore-theoretical forms of meaning that “live in life itself”‘ (Sean J. McGrath, ‘Heidegger and Duns Scotus on Truth and Language’, Review of Metaphysics, Dec., 2003, Vol. 57, No. 2, pp. 339-358).
