Definition of "byss" []

• See byssus, n., 1. (noun)

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• "I would contend that we will find it, amongst other places, in the numerous occasions where Laclau has recourse to the notion of the ontological difference — in the radical Heideggerian understanding of difference-as-difference, a notion which simultaneouly points at the a-byss of the nonground and thus has to be situated within the wider horizon of current post-foundational thinking."
• "a byss ', _chasm; deep space_. phan'tom, _ghost; airy spirit_."