system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
What's the difference between "ontic" and "ontological"?

From Heidegger's "Being and Time".
gpt
"Ontic" is about entities. When you talk about what makes a shoe a shoe, a mountain a mountain, etc., you're talking about ontics.

"Ontological" concerns the structure of being as such--not particular beings, but what it means for beings to be. Existence.