If being is said in many ways with a focal meaning, then existentially dependent entities like qualities or relations do not warrant the same ontological scrutiny as substances—they warrant derivative scrutiny.
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Careful, serious examination and analysis of whether something truly exists and what its status is in reality.
Relations
A relation is a way of describing how two or more things are connected or related to each other. For example, "is the parent of," "is taller than," or "is friends with" are all relations that show how people or objects link together. In everyday terms, it's simply a pattern or connection that shows how one thing depends on, compares to, or associates with another.
Said in many ways(in metaphysics)
A phrase meaning the same word can be used to describe different types of things in different senses—like how 'healthy' can describe a person, food, or even a complexion.
being(Aristotle's rejection of being as a genus)
The class that contains all and only things that exist; proposed candidate for a highest kind.
qualities(Metaphysics of relations and properties)
Entities that must differ from other qualities in order to be what they are, thereby presupposing distinctness and plurality.
substances(Used to distinguish the category of substance from that of property in ontology.)
Individual objects; the entities that properties are predicated of.