for the name (1) points to the element shared by the two, namely the absolute universal; yet that universal, precisely as absolute, exists only in the mind (2). This does not entail denying the common element found in the concrete particulars outside the mind, for on that basis univocal terms would disappear—though they make up the majority (3) of the words in the various languages (4). Such words are the linguistic generic nouns, the unrestricted term (5) applied to a thing and to everything that resembles it, whether the term names a concrete object or an attribute, whether it is a primitive or a derivative form, and whether it denotes a genus (6) in logic, in jurisprudence, or in neither field.

Indeed, a generic noun in language (7) covers genera, classes (8), species, and the like; all of these are univocal terms, while the individual referents that exist in external reality remain distinct from one another.

Some of them then requested that the aforementioned hadiths (9) on creed be read again, so that they might attack