Polemos (greek “war”) is conflict in the sense of differentiating activity – an ongoing, unfolding dynamic in a specific situation as historically given. Heidegger employs the word polemos to articulate a new vocabulary to express the relationship between Dasein and being in the hermeneutical construal of a world; polemos, as conflictual, situated, and temporal, is intended to replace the Platonic idea, as static, transcendent, and eternal, as what gives meaning to both entities and the world in which entities make sense.