in the pre-possession; 3. the pre-hension [foregrasp, anticipation: Vorgriff]: how what is seen in a specific way is conceptually explicated on the basis of specific motivation. These are the factors of the hermeneutical situation on the basis of which something is interpreted. Ἑρμηνεύειν means to interpret in the sense of an interpretation that keeps itself transparent to itself. All the characters of the hermeneutical situation are determined by the categorial preemptiveness [or fore-going character: Vorhafte]. This pre-emptiveness that pertains to these determinations of the hermeneutical situation is a basic determination of existing itself. The possession, the view, the grasp are basic constitutions that arise for existence.
What the investigation itself has in advance, the pre-possession [Vorhabe] is being-here. The pre-view [Vorsicht], that in regard to which being-here itself is seen as such, is being, being-here in terms of its being, in terms of the possibilities and manners of its being. The pre-hension [Vorgriff] is determined by the fact that the characters of being are explicated. Being-here is seen in regard to a genuine possibility of being, with regard to existence.2 This possibility of being on the part of being-here discloses itself only in a radical, hermeneutical questioning. Explication is itself a possibility of being that can be described in a radical questioning that has been traditionally designated "philosophical." In this sense all these characteristics, insofar as they concern existence, are existentials. The existentials are quite specific determinations of being that have nothing to do with the usual categories. Categories always apply to factual, worldly domains of being.
The observations made up to this point divide into two initially separate observations. The first observation centered around the clarification of the term "phenomenology." The second set out to identify what designates itself with this term today. Both investigations point to a specific uniformity of theme and agreement in method. Both investigations are conducted by interpreting what is given to existence in advance.
Φαίνομενον and λόγος are interpreted with respect to existence: self-showing as a specific possibility of the world, which can turn around into pretending to be something else, whereby the further development into illusion becomes possible. Λόγος as a basic possibility of existence: as a process of addressing and discussing the world encountered.
The second observation was already characterized by the explicit character of the inquiry as the sort of inquiry in which being is what matters. We interpreted the thematic field of "consciousness" with a view to a specific care; we interpreted the formation of the thematic field as a manner of existing.
2. [This paragraph is one of the few passages containing both Existenz (here translated "existence") and Dasein (here translated "being-here" in order to maintain the contrast with Existenz, but otherwise usually translated "existence" or "existing").—D.D.]