The Sosein/Sein distinction may conflate psychological conceivability with genuine metaphysical independence—thinking of lions doesn't prove their properties are ontologically separate from existence.

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Ontological: "Ontological" refers to questions about what actually exists or is real. It's concerned with the fundamental nature of being—asking "What kinds of things are there?" rather than "How do we know about them?" For example, an ontological question might be whether numbers, ideas, or God actually exist as real things, or if they're just human inventions.
Ontologically independent(metaphysics): Able to exist or be real on its own, without needing something else to exist first; completely separate from other things.
Psychological conceivability(epistemology and philosophy of mind): Something that your mind can imagine or picture, even if it's not actually possible or real in the world.
Sosein/Sein distinction(metaphysics and ontology): A philosophical debate about whether we can describe what something is like (its properties) separately from whether it actually exists. For example, you can imagine a unicorn's properties without unicorns actually existing.

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