 One central element of this view is that we are always projecting possibilities onto the world around us. Or rather, it is not as if the world first presents itself as a bare thing empty of possibilities, and then we construe it as possessing these possibilities; instead, our experience of the world is from the first suffused with this sense of possibility. To take an example that Samantha Matherne (2019) uses to illustrate Heidegger’s view: when I first apprehend the martini in front of me, I take it as offering a variety of possibilities—to be sipped, to be thrown, to be shaken, to be stirred. If I then take the martini as to be sipped, I am seizing on one of these possibilities and interpreting the martini in light of this specific possibility. But my experience of the drink was never devoid of an apprehension of possibilities altogether.