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Disclose: To unveil or make manifest either Dasein or being. Dealings: Dasein's everyday engagment with paraphernalia and in tasks and projects. He just chooses a word in German that is connected with our dealing with others and that embeds, in German, the word "sight:" " Rücksicht," which means considerateness in ordinary German.) Conspicuousness: the mode of equipmental breakdown in which equipment malfunctions. (You should studiously avoid all of the moral overtones of the word in its ordinary usage. Considerateness: the sight of being-with, that is, the form of intelligence that guides our coping with others. We are concerned with the hammer and the job of hammering (but solicitous toward others see solicitude). Concern: The mode of care that characterizes Dasein in so far as it engages with paraphernalia and the tasks in which paraphernalia is involved. Contasts with " existentiale." Circumspection: The "sight" of dealings, that is, the form of intelligence that guides our pretheoretical, prereflective, and mostly precognitive coping with paraphernalia and tasks. Contrasts with " existential." Category: An essential feature of the being of non-Dasein entities. Categorial: Of or pertaining to the being of entities unlike Dasein. Being-with: Dasein's relationship to others. It is not spatial inclusion (being in), but rather, inhabitation, residence, dwelling. (M&R: "being-alongside.") Being-in: Dasein's distinctive way of being in the world. Being-amidst: Dasein's distinctive relation with non-human intraworldly entities. How Dasein is "primarily and usually" (M&R: "proximally and for the most part"). Average everydayness: The typical, common, or normal way in which Dasein is. Availableness: The being of the available, that is, of paraphernalia or equipment. (Exercise for the reader: watch an episode of Seinfeld.) Note that "mood" (M&R's translation) is too narrow, since "attunement" (" Stimmung") is meant to cover all of Dasein's affective states (emotions, passions, and even, I think, important aspects of character traits and sensibilities). Something that might show up as aggravating when you're angry shows up as comical when you're feeling silly. E.g., feeling silly attunes you to the risible dimension of things. Attunement: An affective condition in so far as it discloses to us what matters, what is important or relevant. (E.g., a disease appears by means of a symptom.) For more on phenomena, semblance, and appearance, see my notes on sect. Appearance: Something that does not show itself, but which announces itself by means of something else that does show itself. Anyone-self: The self in the mode of the Anyone, that is, the self in its average everyday manner of being. "The Anyone" is my preferred translation of das Man (M&R: "the 'they'"). The Anyone: The Anyone is a pattern of anonymous normativity that lays out the framework in terms of which we understand ourselves, our fellows, and our world in our average everydayness. Blattner Back Heideggeriana Some Terminology in Being and Timeīeing: That which "determines entities as entities," that "in terms of which entities are already intelligible as entities." Of course, what exactly this means is a vexed question.