If the discursive intellect's categories of 'Being' and 'beings' are themselves derivative of a prior principle, then the alleged contradiction is an artifact of finite cognition, not ontologicalfact.
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Prior principle(as the underlying source being referenced)
A foundational reality or rule that exists logically before and is more basic than other things.
artifact(Contrasted with real cellular structures in evaluating microscopy results)
A feature in a micrograph produced by the methods of preparation rather than by actual structures in the cell
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.
categories(Kantian epistemology)
The most basic concepts of objects in general, which are unavoidably employed whenever we think about anything whatsoever
discursive intellect(Kant's epistemology as interpreted by Allison)
An intellect that passively receives representations of particular objects (intuitions) and spontaneously subsumes those intuited objects under general concepts