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    It is not the case that The concept of historical origin cannot be reduced to empirical causality or the naked factual existence of what has come into being.

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    • 1.Historical origin is not merely 'the coming-to-be of what has originated'.
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    • 2.Historical origin cannot be recognized in 'the naked, manifest existence of the factual'.
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    • 3.Reducing origin to empirical causality abstracts away from the essential inner history of works and forms.
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    • 1.Aristotle's distinction between efficient causality and formal cause shows that what something *is* cannot be derived from how it was *produced*.
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    • 2.Benjamin's concept of Ursprung designates a vortex in the stream of becoming, recovering suppressed possibilities that mere genetic accounts permanently foreclose.
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    • 3.Hegel's dialectic demonstrates that the truth of a phenomenon emerges through its developmental contradictions, not its contingent point of emergence in time.
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    • 1.Husserl's genetic phenomenology establishes that the sedimented meaning of cultural forms exceeds any causal-historical reconstruction of their factual genesis.
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    • 2.A causal account of origin treats contingent antecedents as sufficient explanation, thereby eliminating the normative surplus that makes historical works intelligible as works.
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