Now, medieval theology admittedly entered into this area of discussion with a certain hesitancy; leaving in the background the question of the relationship between trinitarian difference and the fundamental difference within worldly being, the medievals began with the apparently easier question of the basic properties of all being, that is, with the transcendentals. After all, it was reasoned, since the transcendentals pervade the whole of being “supra-categorially”, they had to be predicable both