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Wiki MarkupBracken evidently aSSU111eS that the concept/term "activity" allows for a distinction between "particular activities" (77), or "specific forms of activity" that go with specific entities (such as the specific form of activity of "a Creator God active in the world" \ [89\]), and "an underlying activity" (e.g., 82, 88), or "a foundational activity" (e.g., 88, 89), that is, in fact, "the most fundamental activity of all, the activity of be-ing or existing" (76). \\ 

Not surprisingly, Bracken quite commonly speaks of "activity" in the second sense, not simply as "an underlying activity," but as "an underlying ontological activity" (e.g., 75, 78, 80, 82; d. 84, 92; italics added). Thus, while he does not appear to make explicit use of the other term of Heidegger's distinction between the "ontological" and the "ontic," Bracken in effect distinguishes between the many outic activities inseparable from particular entities (d. 84, 89) and the one ontoLogicaL activity that is "constitutive of the existence and interrelated activity of the various kinds of entities in the world" (91; d. 84, where he speaks of "activity as such," or "pure activity," which "escapes the power of perception" and is "only perceived when it is instantiated in something which is active or someone who is active"). 

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