 Early phenomenological debate about these entities extends over many years and is animated by various positions. These different positions can be sorted into two more or less well-defined competing views. According to the first, all states of affairs have an ontological status of their own, which is intentionality-independent. The second view claims that only a restricted class of states of affairs are intentionality-independent entities. On this second view, non-obtaining states of affairs (e.g., Elvis’ being the president of the US) or negative states of affairs (e.g., the not being red of the White House) or existential states of affairs (the existence of Barack Obama) or impersonal states of affairs (the state of affairs that it is raining) and/or other kinds of state of affairs have been argued to be intentionality-dependent.