[174] in his way and, on the basis of his answer, calls philosophy something different from the other one. In any case, the most general questions are answered. Now perhaps this can help us to go one little step farther, but if you don't want [to], don’t do it. But l want to do it because it is a little bit more helpful than this departmental DESCRIPTION--- which is not a definition. Which are the most general questions somebody can ask? Now of course the negative side is easy to answer. There are questions which do not deal with the nature of a special SPHERE of reality, for instance the special sphere of mathematical structure, of space and time, or of the physical structure of matter, or the historical structure of becoming. But they ask something more general, and then they may go back to all this, but first they both go to something more universal. And perhaps it is meaningful to say they ask about the nature of reality, which is present in ALL these realms. Now that is also very simple and is not a clear definition, but it is a more adequate description than our very first was. This more adequate description says that philosophy^a tries to find the universal categories^b in which everything that is, is experienced. Philosophy deals with the structure of being ^cuniversally. I don't know whether everybody would accept this definition, but for me this seems to be the only possible way of dealing with philosophy, which is a reality, and of describing it in such a way that almost every philosopher, at least in the past, can be shown as participating in this endeavor to say something about the nature of being universally. If such a notion of philosophy