The question of being is the sole essential question, rightly qualified as 'ownmost', but at the same time it is not obvious. As if to ask, out of what does experience emerge? but not in a way that could require an answer apart from what is already know and effected, what experience already knowingly rests on and out of which every self-notion diverges Next to this every other question is displaced, rendered off-centre since an answer is possible from out of what is not known. Other questions are perfectly legitimate, or even more so, and rightly burn, drawing one's entire being into them. It is wrong to take the displacement of questionings, of philosophy say, as something essential to thought or language. This only happens in relation to the question of being which they do not address. Even more unwise to turn the general displacement back onto being and consider it as negation or error. Because being nihilates does not make of it a nihilism; to take it so would be a category error.