The author uses the notions of "veritative being"and "existential being" to show the similarity of certain conceptual tools of analytic philosophy and medieval metaphysics. The idea of "veritative being" originates in Aristotle, and it points to something being a fact or being the case, whereas "existential being"points to things or properties of things. The distinction between facts and things is connected with the contrast between de re and de dicto in modal logic, and is applied to two texts by Tomas Aquinas, on the incarnation of the Verb and on the eternity of the world.
