as-structure

is the fact that when something is understood, it is always understood 'as' something, with the object of that 'as' necessarily already lying within the encount with the object.

That which is understood gets Articulated when the entity to be understood is brought close interpretatively by taking as our clue the 'something as something'... and this Articulation lies before our making any thematic assertion about it. In such an assertion the 'as' does not turn up for the first time... it just gets expressed for the first time, and this is possible only in that it lies before us as something expressible. (190, my italics) [I491 (dreyfus 'being in the world' 208)

as structure, n.Definitions

as structure