the "they" and its world. The understanding of this is one of the things that a resolution discloses, inasmuch as resoluteness is what first gives authentic transparency to Dasein. In resoluteness the issue for Dasein is its ownmost potentiality-for-Being, which, as something thrown, can project itself only upon definite factical possibilities. Resolution does not withdraw itself from 'actuality', but discovers first what is factically possible; and it does so py seizing upon it in whatever way is possible for it as its ownmost potentiality-for-Being in the "they". The existential attributes of any possible resolute Dasein include the items constitutive for an existential phenomenon which we call a "Situation" and which we have hitherto passed over.
In the term "Situation" ("situation"—'to be in a situation') there is an overtone of a signification that is spatial.1 We shall not try to eliminate this from the existential conception for such an overtone is also implied in the 'there' of Dasein. Being-in-the-world has a spatiality of its own, characterized by the phenomena of de-severance and directionality. Dasein 'makes room' in so far as it factically exists.xiv But spatiality of the kind which belongs to Dasein, and on the basis of which existence always determines its 'location', is grounded in the state of Being-in-the-world, for which disclosedness is primarily constitutive. Just as the spatiality of the "there" is grounded in disclosedness, the Situation has its foundations in resoluteness. The Situation is the "there" which is disclosed in resoluteness—the "there" as which the existent entity is there. It is not a framework present-at-hand in which Dasein occurs, or into which it might even [300] just bring itself. Far removed from any present-at-hand mixture of circumstances and accidents which we encounter, the Situation is only through resoluteness and in it. The current factical involvement-character of the circumstances discloses itself to the Self only when that involvement-character is such that one has resolved upon the "there" as which that Self, in existing, has to be.2 When what we call "accidents" befall from the with-world and the environment, they can be-fall only resoluteness.3
For the "they", however, the Situation is essentially something that has been closed off.4 The "they" knows only the 'general situation', loses itself in those 'opportunities' which are closest to it, and pays Dasein's way by a reckoning
1 The German words 'Situation' and 'Lage' will be translated by 'Situation' and 'situation' respectively.
2 'Entschlossen für das Da, als welches das Selbst existierend zu sein hat, erschliesst sich ihm erst der jeweilige faktische Bewandtnischarakter der Umstände.'
3 'Nur dsr Ent-schlossenheit kann das aus der Mit- und Umwelt zu-fallen, was wir Zufalle nennen.' Literally a 'Zufall' ('accident') is something that 'falls to' something, or 'befalls' it. (Compare the Latin 'accidens', which has basically the same meaning).
4 'verschlossen'. Contrast 'erschlossen' ('disclosed') and 'entschlossen' ('resolved').