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The ontological difference

Being is not a being. You can finish the list.

Seven ordinary things. Catalogue them — class, measure, use — until completeness feels possible. Then ask a different question. Click a being. Keys 1–3. Esc clears.

Pl. I · A table of beings Inventory — completeness feels possible
Seven beings on a table: jug, book, tree, number, god, human, tool A catalogue of ordinary beings. In one disclosure they can be listed completely. In another, the question is that they show up at all. being not located in a thing summum ens the fall VI · human to whom they show I · jug that it holds 22 cm II · book being-read 300 pp. VII · tool in-order-to 400 g 7 IV · number that it numbers BEING V · god a being, not the answer Being, as a being highest being specimens I jug II book III tree IV number V god VI human VII tool VIII Being 0 / 7 not a sum an eighth a full list Complete. the question unasked
0 of 7 catalogued completeness feels possible

Click a specimen. Class, properties, use. The list can be finished.

Salient: class, measure, the highest slot. Receding: that they are.

Beings — the inventory

Seven. You can finish. Each has a class, a measure, a use. The statue keeps a slot for the highest — metaphysics’ temptation: if being must be asked, ask for the greatest being. The list can be complete.

Being and Time, Introduction: the question of being; being is not a being. The ontic look does not yet ask.

Three questions (toy)

The same questions. What they can still mean depends on the disclosure.

Ask. The inventory will answer as an inventory answers.

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