Definition of "ontic" []

• Ontological. (adjective)

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• "For example, Husserl will have us strip away our pregiven assumptions, ending in ontic meaning."
• "And in his recent writings, as the actual--or, in his Heideggerian terminology, the "ontic"--possibility of revolution recedes, its "ontological" importance has increased."
• "Heidegger explicates the concepts of "ontic" and "ontological" through a consideration of science in section 3 of Being and Time."