Vorhandenheit (prepresence, on-handness, presence at hand) — First used terminologically to describe the “already there in advance” in which the around-world is disclosed, and so not yet distinguished from the “handy” (GA63 GA63
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SS 1923 Ontologie. (Hermeneutik der Faktizität) (SS 1923) [1988] — Ontologia. Hermenêutica da Facticidade :97; also November 1924). In fact, so unresolved is this term in November 1924 that even the facticity of the “I am,” its “that it is,” is described in terms of its “being on hand.” The more subtle analysis in SS 1925 [GA20 GA20
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GA20EN Prolegomena zur Geschichte des Zeitbegriffs (Sommersemester 1925), ed. Petra Jaeger, 1. Auflage 1979. 2., durchgesehene Auflage 1988. 3., durchgesehene Auflage 1994. ] of the levels of immediate presence first yields the clear distinction in modes of encounter and disclosedness between the handy (Zuhandenes) and the on-hand things (Vorhandenes) against the background presence of the environing world. [KisielBT:508]