Always trying to be Johny-on-the-spot, there before the fighting has died down, ready-to-hand with a freshly written constitution as soon as an interim government is established. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Not only did his ideas go round in circles, like Hegel's, but there were also bizarre phrases like 'ready-to-hand', 'present-at-hand', 'towards-which', and 'for-the-sake-of' which jumbled ordinary words together in a way that seemed to make no sense. ❋ Enowning (2009)
Unless the technology you place into that environment is "ready-to-hand", it will inhibit effective work rather than supporting it. ❋ Enowning (2009)
Update #2: Norbizness has another PIL video ready-to-hand. ❋ Unknown (2007)
This is the messy precinct of self-self-definition, and I suspect its annexation by the public version, with its standardized Facebook profiles and ready-to-hand argot of therapy and memoir, is less a symptom of epidemic exhibitionism (as prurient adult observers tend to claim) than an adaptive defense against incipient ego loss. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Michael Wheeler's recent book on recent developments in Artificial Intelligence takes into consideration some of the problems philosophers have with AI.Wheeler wants to claim that Heidegger's analysis of the ready-to-hand constrains explanations of mechanism by excluding implicit rules and symbolic representations. ❋ Enowning (2008)
It can apply to 'a storm, refurbishing one's house or the arrival of a friend, hence to things that are present-at-hand, ready-to-hand or there-with-us' BT, 250. ❋ Enowning (2007)
Or the ready-to-hand gets burned into the brain at a certain age, and all new gadgets past that point are merely present. ❋ Enowning (2007)
Heidegger's treatment of the ˜ready-to-hand;™ and Merleau-Ponty's idea that in normal active perception we are conscious of place, not via a determinate ˜representation™ of it, but rather, relative to our capacities for goal-directed bodily behavior. ❋ Siewert, Charles (2006)
I rarely listen to music via the 'puter, although I do have a Cam'ron cd and a Dead Horse cd ready-to-hand for when those rare moods strike. ❋ Unknown (2005)
For several weeks it progressed as pure farce, cheerfully indifferent to probability, its structure a patchwork of ready-to-hand devices, few of which related to one another. ❋ Ron Powers (2005)
Sociologists, marketers, journalists, publishers and anthropoligists are all thrilled to have this ready-to-hand source of quantifiable data about how information propagates, and what it all means. ❋ Unknown (2003)
It had been intended to secure the primitive fish-spear, as a specimen to illustrate the skill with which blacks are in the habit of seizing ready-to-hand material to meet the urgency of the occasion, but it was found that it had been used as part of the fuel to cook the fish. ❋ Unknown (2003)
