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Ready-to-hand (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠a mode of being that is characterized by inconspicuousness, unobtrusiveness, and non-obstinacy, and holding-itself-in.

The Ready-to-hand (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠a positive phenomenal character of being captured in such negative expressions as 'inconspicuousness, unobtrusiveness, and non-obstinacy'.

The Ready-to-hand (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the kind of transparent coping at work when, for example, an expert carpenter is simply hammering, if the hammer is working well and he's a master at what he's doing, the hammer becomes transparent for him. It isn't at all as if he's a subject contemplating the hammer.

Ready-to-hand (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠a way to refer to how, when engaged in some activity like hammering, we are focused on the nail, or the wood to be joined, but not the hammer itself.

Ready-to-hand (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠a way of talking about objects insofar as they withdraw from human view into a dark subterranean reality that never becomes present to practical action any more than it does to theoretical awareness.

Ready-to-hand (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the type of being possessed by tools. When things are ready-to-hand, they tend to withdraw from explicit view.

Ready-to-hand (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠a term for the countless items of equipment we use unthinkingly (i.e. oxygen, floorboards, heart, kidneys, hammers, and computers).

Ready-to-hand (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠using things in a way that takes them for granted and focuses our attention elsewhere.