Partial occlusion by objects is constitutive of their being in a world

Evidence

These have a particular Being which Heidegger calls Zuhandenheit: ‘readiness-to-hand’ or ‘handiness’. While I am hammering, the hammer has that kind of Being for me. If, for some reason, I lay down the hammer and gawp at it as a Hammerding, then it has a different kind: Vorhandenheit or ‘presence-at-hand’. — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 215 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The being of everyday objects is veiled by their instrumental function; An object’s being shifts between use and detached observation. — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom,…, 215; Perception apprehends objects through the ekstatic unity of past and present (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• The being of everyday objects is veiled by their instrumental function #expands (0.82)
• An object’s being shifts between use and detached observation. #complicates (0.78) — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 215
• Perception apprehends objects through the ekstatic unity of past and present #expands (0.75)