A being's pre-essential essence is the practically unlimited ways that it could be disclosed, both by beings with Dasein's mode of comportment or otherwise (some alien race, perhaps, or animals). It is not understood as some essential 'nature' that we can 'see' in its 'properties,' as this is a de-worlded and, for that reason, diminished grasp of beings. The pre-essential essence of beings lies in its transcendence, its excess that cannot be captured in any given disclosure of that being, the object's ability to be disclosed in an indeterminate number of ways and, by such, its ability to surprise us.

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