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 == What's the problem with ""ontic?""  == 

 The use of ""ontic"" is entirely correct.  Commonly, ""ontic"" is simply an adjective synonymous with ""ontological""- there is nothing grammatically fishy about it.  Its use here is more important than mere grammar however, since Heidegger draws a distinction between the ""ontic,"" which designates beings in their everyday thisness and thatness, and the ""ontological,"" which designates any relation to being as such and in a universal sense.  The distinction between ""ontic"" and ""ontological"" mirrors his distinction between ""being"" and ""the being of beings."""