The property of being whereby a being, as being, is itself and is distinct from every other being.  In some divisions of the transcendental properties of being, otherness involves two transcendentals, namely, to be a thing (res) and to be something (aliquid).  The transcendental thing indicates the essential nature of what a thing is (in distinction from its existence, which is designated by the transcendental being).  The transcendental something mediately indicates the distinction of one thing from other things and immediately indicates being precisely as opposed to non-being.  In this final sense, the transcendental aliquid can be used to speak of the transcendence of God.