For I do not find in Scripture any indication that Adam was taught the name of figures, numbers, measures, colors, sounds, fancies, or relations, much less the names of words and parts of speech, terms such as general, special, affirmative, negative, interrogative, optative, infinitive, all of which are useful, and least of all, the words entity, intentionality, quiddity, and other significant words of school. By naming things, some names referring more widely than others, we turn reasoning over purely mental things into reasoning over words.