dǐ ki, v. t., to strike, to whip, to count coup.]

E-commerce has turned even the laying of a floor into a fiendishly involved business.

[the] acephalic democracy [of Aleut village communities]

In particular, we cannot choose the circumstances of our birth and our entire bodily condition. These facticities appear to us as having no foundation or justification. Why is one person born blind and another born with perfect vision? Facticities are thus contingent, they present themselves as simply there.