In the ‘they’ mode the world reflects one’s unauthentic possibilities back as interchangeable instruments.

Evidence

It is in complete freedom and by an original choice that, for example, I realize my being-with in the anonymous form of “they.” And if I am asked how my “being-with” can exist for-myself, I must reply that through the world I make known to myself what I am. In particular when I am in the unauthentic mode of the “they,” the world refers to me a sort of impersonal reflection of my unauthentic possibilities in the form of instruments and complexes of instruments which belong to “everybody” and which belong to me in so far as I am “everybody:” ready-made clothes, common means of transportation, parks, gardens, public places, shelters made for anyone who may take shelter there, etc. Thus I make myself known as anybody by means of the indicative complex of instruments which indicate me as a Worum-willen. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 700

Categorization

• XREF: The worldly instrument complex as impersonal reflection develops the for-itself’s project-anchored worldhood from earlier chapters, now generalized to the they-self. — connects to: One’s own possibilities become instruments for the Other’s aims; The Other’s look makes one’s own possibilities into ambivalent instruments — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 733; Perception is indistinguishable from the practical organization of the world into instruments — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 860 (+2 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: One’s own possibilities become instruments for the Other’s aims; The Other’s look makes one’s own possibilities into ambivalent instruments — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 733; Perception is indistinguishable from the practical organization of the world into instruments — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 860 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• One’s own possibilities become instruments for the Other’s aims #expands (0.85)
• The Other’s look makes one’s own possibilities into ambivalent instruments #expands (0.80) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 733
• Perception is indistinguishable from the practical organization of the world into instruments #expands (0.75) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 860
• The world’s instrumental organization depends partly on constituting consciousness #expands (0.75)
• The situation is constituted from Others’ meanings rather than from being itself #expands (0.72) — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre, 444