Starting from a comparison of some equivalents of the English there is, the paper highlights the complexity of the relationship between being and place. It refers to the conceptions which Plato and Aristotle respectively had of the chôra and the topos and alludes to their heritage before examining the “logic of place” (“basho no ronri”), or “logic of the predicate” (“jutsugo no ronri”) put forward by Nishida against the Aristotelian logic of the identity of the subject and its historical implications. Any place in the ecumene (the relationship of Humankind with the Earth) takes part in a relation between subject and predicate (S/P) in an ontological mode which is concrete reality. Some places–?as a Heideggerian Ort instead of a mere Stelle (position of an object in the universal and neutral space postulated by the modern, which precedes the objects put therein and proceeds from an Aristotelian logic of the identity of the subject)–?have more predicates than others, and from there emanates (Räuumung) a specific space. However, privileging a logic of the predicate, as did Nishida, would only be a reversal of the modern paradigm. We must not regress before modernity, but overcome it in a logic which is here advocated as trajective and can be summed up in the formula r = S/P, which reads “reality is S taken as P”. In other words, any being in the ecumene proceeds, concretely, from the dynamic coupling of an individual place (a topos) and a collective milieu (a chôra).