'ousia' in David Foster Wallace's Balancing Books: Fictions of Value | Bookmarker

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(from Greek) analogous to the English concepts of being and ontic used in contemporary philosophy; one of Heidegger's pet concepts (meaning Being)

"[...] ousia taken as oikos, everyday household life, house and hearth"

quoting someone referring to Heidegger's views on Aristotle's definition of ousia

—p.43 Come to Work (33) by Jeffrey Severs

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