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  1. That branch of philosophy concerned with the
  2. study of being. In the 20th century,
  3. Heidegger distinguished between an
  4. `ontological' enquiry (an enquiry into Being)
  5. and an `ontic' enquiry (an enquiry into a
  6. specific kind of entity).
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