Literally “breath of the voice,” that is, a mere name or sound, which characterizes the position of nominalism in the medieval controversy over the existence of universals. Accordingly, general ideas have no existence except as a word. (Heidegger is here placing the discovery of categorial intuition in the context of traditional philosophy since Plato. It is seldom noted that Heidegger has inaugurated a new chapter in the staid old “problem of the universals” in his search for an ontology of occasional expressions, for the universal structures of ‘temporal particularity.’ Cf. “On the Way to Being and Time.”) (Kisiel; GA20TK:71-72)