Constant, constancy (Standig[keit], Beständigkeit), 117, 128, 291, 303, 320, 322, 332, 375, 417, 427 n. 13; existent “stand” of, 117, 322; and inconstancy (“dependency”) of the self, 117, 128, 322-323, 332, 375, 390, 410; Descartes on the constancy of corporeal things, 92, 96; (objective) presence, 96, 98, 105fn, 320-321, 423, 427 n. 16; handiness, 103; the closest c. of Dasein, 128; the primordial c. of existence, 340; ahead-of-itself, 337; Being-guilty, 305; certainty, 308; resoluteness, 391; inconstancy, 117, 128, 336-337, 309-391. See also ancient ontology; presence; Self (BT)