for their loci are multiple. Yet whether the locus is multiple or single does not rule out mutual opposition: two identical things are mutually opposed, even though they are identical in reality and locus. Thus, bā and tā are more strongly opposed than bā and hā, since two letters with distinct loci can coexist, unlike those that share a single locus. Two mutually opposed things cannot coexist in one locus, but they can exist in two separate loci.

If it is supposed that letters can exist only in a single locus, they are comparable to their meanings, which can exist only in a single locus.

If, however, it is supposed that they have two loci, they can coexist, just as the voices of different speakers can all sound together.

But none of us can—none of us can—do this, because the movement of one of our speech organs necessarily entails the movement of another. Otherwise, if it were supposed that we could move them all—like someone blowing air with both hands, using a blowing device in each—letters and sounds could occur simultaneously in distinct loci.

What appears impossible is only that two letters should coexist in a single locus at the same time.

Yet it might be said that this is comparable to the meanings of speech, for each of us finds within himself that he cannot bring together the meanings of speech in his heart at one time.

If that is so, anyone who holds that meanings can coexist is subject to the same implications as one who holds