I won't say for the whole of Odessa, but among Greek philosophers, starting with the pre – Socratics, Mamardashvili, as far as I understand, traces the following tradition of distinguishing between one and the other: being is how an existing object is given to a perceiving subject. The house does not exist, the house finds existence only in thinking, where it is isolated, assembled from fragments, and endowed with meaning. And outside of being, there is-well, not a house, of course, but an amorphous something, just a combination of particles.
I won't say for the whole of Odessa, but among Greek philosophers, starting with the pre – Socratics, Mamardashvili, as far as I understand, traces the following tradition of distinguishing between one and the other: being is how an existing object is given to a perceiving subject. The house does not exist, the house finds existence only in thinking, where it is isolated, assembled from fragments, and endowed with meaning. And outside of being, there is-well, not a house, of course, but an amorphous something, just a combination of particles.