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Bestand

Bestand, in the sense Heidegger is drawing upon, means "stock," "holdings," "assets," or, the term Heidegger uses often, "standing reserve." The orientation to the world described as enframing, Gestell, renders the world into a stockpile of raw materials.

• Bestand
• fortgewähren
• fortwähren
• gewähren
• Gestell
• herausfordern
• Ursache
• währen
• Wesen

• aition
• apophainesthai
• eidos
• hyle
• legein
• logos
• telos

• causa
• causa efficiens
• causa finalis
• causa formalis
• causa materialis
• quid
• quidditas