“Yet the question we are touching upon is not just any question.”

Heidegger is about to tell us why this question should be the one that we are concentrating on rather than the traditional one which is seen as the ultimate question which is “Why is there something rather than nothing?” In a sense the ultimate question is what leads us to the question of the meaning of Being because the Ultimate Question says “Why IS ….” and we really cannot get past the IS to consider the ontic possiblities of something or nothing. We must first deal with the Ontological question of the nature of the “IS”.