Abstract
Are there modes or kinds of being as opposed to modes or kinds of beings? Many heirs of Brentano not only endorsed modes of being but happily distinguished a large number thereof. Those who resisted the very idea of modes of being, such as the early Husserl and Marty, relied on versions of the view that being or existence is not a first-order property. According to many of their twentieth century fans, modes of being have one thing in common: each mode of being is correlated with a type of mental act or state. It is argued in this paper that even if modes of being are rejected the properties and relations which were wrongly classified as modes of being may well be correlated with different types of mental acts and states.