being-in

is a way of saying immersed in the world, involved with it, permanently intertwined and occupied with it even when it feels alienated or lonely.

It is important here to specify what the word “in” means. Usually “in” refers to something spatially present inside of another thing. Water is in a glass, New Orleans is in the state of Louisiana, a soul is somehow in a body. This is not what being-in-the-world means. Instead, being-in means that Dasein is immersed in the world, involved with it, permanently intertwined and occupied with it even when it feels alienated or lonely.

is not a merely spatial relation in some sense that might be determined by a GPS device, since Dasein is never just present-at-hand within the world in the way demanded by that sort of spatial in-ness.

As this passage makes clear, the Being-in dimension of Being-in-the-world cannot be thought of as a merely spatial relation in some sense that might be determined by a GPS device, since Dasein is never just present-at-hand within the world in the way demanded by that sort of spatial in-ness.

being in, n.All

being in