Definitions

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  • adjective Constituting or being indicative of a single aspect or theme.
  • adjective Consisting of a single undivided part; whole; complete.
  • adjective Simple, plain, straightforward; single, singular; unmixed, unadulterated; honest, sincere.

Etymologies

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From Middle English onfold, anfald ("single, simple, honest, onefold"), from Old English ānfeald ("single, simple", literally "onefold"), from Proto-Germanic *ainafalþaz (“onefold, simple”), equivalent to one +‎ -fold. Cognate with Dutch eenvoud ("simple, easy"), German Einfalt ("simplicity"), Icelandic einfaldur ("simple"), Gothic 𐌰𐌹𐌽𐍆𐌰𐌻𐌸𐍃 (ainfalþs, "simple"). More at one, -fold.

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Examples

  • The jug's presencing is the pure, giving gathering of the onefold fourfold into a single time-space, a single stay.

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  • The jug's presencing is the pure, giving gathering of the onefold fourfold into a single time-space, a single stay.

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  • The gift of the outpouring stays the onefold of the fourfold of the four.

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  • The gift of the outpouring stays the onefold of the fourfold of the four.

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  • The jug's presencing is the pure, giving gathering of the onefold fourfold into a single time-space, a single stay.

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  • The jug's presencing is the pure, giving gathering of the onefold fourfold into a single time-space, a single stay.

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  • In other words, this distinction itself becomes the real barrier which misplaces the inquiry into the question of be-ing, insofar as, by presupposing this distinction, one attempots to go further than this distinction and t inquire into its onefold.

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  • This onefold, in spite of the discordant ontological difference, must be thought at all costs.

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  • Therefore, in attempting to overcome the first effort at the question of being in Being and Time and its emanations Vom Wesen des Grundes and the Kantbook, varying attempts were needed to master the "ontological difference," to grasp its very origin and that means its genuine onefold.

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  • Insofar as this difference does not lead to awareness of the distinction between the "is-ness" peculiar to beings and the "is" that belongs to be-ing, it introduces a discord into the onefold of be-ing and a being.

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