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Circumspection (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠a kind of 'sight' which does not involve deliberate, thematic awareness, we get our bearings in regard to these things. Circumspection allows for the fact that when we enter here through the door, we do not apprehend the seats, and the same holds for the doorknob. We go by them circumspectly and avoid them circumspectly.

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Circumspection (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠our practical everyday orientation. It is the view in which the equipmental nexus stands at first, completely unobtrusive and unthought.

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Circumspection (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the nexus of things not taken up thematically or deliberatively, but insofar as we find our bearings in regard to them. When we enter here through the door, we do not apprehend the seats, and the same holds for the doorknob. Nevertheless, they are there in this peculiar way: We go by them circumspectly, avoid them circumspectly, and the like.

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Circumspection (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the notion that when we deal with things by using them and manipulating them, this activity is not a blind one... it has its own kind of sight, by which our manipulation is guided and from which it acquires its specific thingly character.

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Circumspection (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the user's grasp of his environment in his everyday way of getting around.

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Circumspection (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the way in which we are aware of the world when it recedes in use the most fundamental mode of intentionality.