16000-17

In Dasein, there is undeniably a constant ‘lack of totality’ which finds an end with death. This “not-yet” ‘belongs’ to Dasein as long as it is; this is how things stand phenomenally. Is this to be Interpreted as still outstanding? With relation to what entities do we talk about that which is still outstanding? When we use this expression, we view that which indeed ‘belongs’ to an entity but is still missing. Outstanding as a way of being missing is grounded upon a belonging-to. For instance, the remainder yet to be received when a debt is balanced is still outstanding. That which is still outstanding is not yet at one’s disposal. When the ‘debt’ gets paid off, that which is still outstanding gets liquidated; this signifies that the money ‘comes in’, or, in other words, that the remainder comes successively along. By this procedure, the “not-yet” gets filled up, as it were until the sum that is owed is “all together”. Therefore, to be still outstanding means that what belongs together is not yet all together. Ontologically, this implies the un-readiness-to-hand of those portions which have yet to be contributed. These portions have the same kind of Being as those which are ready-to-hand already; and the latter, for their part, do not have their kind of Being modified by having the remainder come in. Whatever “lack-of-togetherness” remains gets “paid off’ by a cumulative piecing-together. Entities for which anything is still outstanding have the kind of Being of something ready-to-hand. The togetherness is characterized as a “sum”, and so is that lack-of-togetherness which is founded upon it.