“‘If we are to understand the problem of Being, our first philosophical step consists in […] not ‘telling a story’ — that is to say, not defining entities as entities by tracing them back in their origin to some other entities, as if Being had the character of some possible entity. Hence Being, as that which is asked about, must be exhibited in a way of its own, essentially different from the way in which entities are discovered. Accordingly, what is to be found out by asking — the meaning of Being — also demands that it be conceived in a way of its own, essentially contrasting with the concepts in which entities acquire their determinate signification.’”
— Martin Heidegger ‘Being and Time: The Formal Structure of the Question of Being’
