For the Greeks Philosophy was interested in Being, which was the iceberg beneath the surface of the water when all you can see is the tip, or what is going on behind the scenes that makes the theater play on the stage possible and run smoothly. For example, we have grapeness before our mind’s eye that allows us to have a successful trip to the grocery store. In The Sophist, Plato says every thing operates in this way according to einai (Being), choris (separate from), ton alloon (the others), and kath auto (in itself). I encounter the rock, “as something rather than nothing,” “as not me,” “as igneous with igneous features and formation history” “as not a metamorphic rock or sedimentary rock,” etc.