Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To buzz; hum.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun See
byssus , n., 1.
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Examples
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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.
enowning enowning 2009
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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.
Archive 2009-02-01 enowning 2009
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a byss ', _chasm; deep space_. phan'tom, _ghost; airy spirit_.
New National Fourth Reader J. Marshall Hawkes
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