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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 April 2021
A disposition in general is either the process by means of which a struggle, conflict, or dispute reaches a resolution; or it is the condition in which a formerly fluid, dynamic, changing situation is now settled into a more static, orderly arrangement and thus brought to a kind of completion. Heidegger is interested in ontological dispositions: the settlement of stable configurations of relations that allows entities to manifest themselves. Heidegger’s metaphor for understanding the concept of a disposition is a threshold – the hardened boundary that delimits the inside from the outside and vice versa (see GA12:24/PLT 202). Without a threshold to secure and carry a doorway or gate, the distinction between in and out is insecure and vague. With a threshold in place, the relation of in and out is made stable or brought to a resolution.
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