Full Idea
The less we stare at the hammer-Thing, and the more we seize hold of it and use it, the more primordial does our relationship to it become. ...The kind of Being which equipment possesses... we call 'readiness-to-hand' [Zuhandenheit].
Gist of Idea
Our relationship to a hammer strengthens when we use
Source
Martin Heidegger (Being and Time [1927], I.3.15)
Book Reference
Heidegger,Martin: 'Being and Time' [Blackwell 1962], p.98
A Reaction
This example would be well at home in the writings of the pragmatists. It is also an important example for existentialists. In analytic philosophy we might say the experience combines perception with direct exerience of causation.
Related Idea
Idea 22161 Readiness-to-hand defines things in themselves ontologically [Heidegger]