This 'thing' that is prior to the first distinction, and by which it can be a distinction at all, has nothing of the general or 'impersonal' about it. It is the most particular of 'things', more so than any thing is personal or particular such as is always with reference to the others. It sheds no light, none at al!, on the 'problem of other minds' or of transcendence. These last may be genuine problems, but only on a certain basis, a certain chosen variant of the field of primary distinctions, otherwise known as metaphysics or ontology. Whether it has, or what it has, to do with beingness remains entirely open.