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appellation. Take the word phenix. No
such thing exists. One naturally says that
the name has no breadth. That, however, is
not strictly correct. We should say its breadth
is nothing. That breadth is precisely what
I mean by a sam. Therefore I define a sam
as an ens rationis having two grades of being,
its essence, which is the being of a
definite quality imputed to the sam, and its existence which is
the existence of whatever subject may exist that
possesses that quality. A gath, on the other
hand is a subject having only one