Reality is the kind of being of the occurrent. Heidegger’s employment of the language of “the real” and its “reality” (from the Latin realis, which calls to mind the thing, res, in contrast to actuality, which suggests the “being-at-work” of something) is likely to remind the reader of Being and Time of the well-known critique of the epistemological problem of the existence of the external world, developed in §43. In light of Heidegger’s tendency in SZ to associate reality with the being of the occurrent, it comes as no surprise that the term tends to drop out of the later work, making only casual appearances after 1930, bereft of any deep and abiding philosophical import.