those who affirm the attributes. Whoever disputes this is told: You agree with us on what is known through natural disposition: that whatever exists and subsists in itself must admit of description—that is, statements can be made about it in terms of what is peculiar to it and distinguishes it from other things. For whatever exists in external reality cannot be wholly indeterminate and unrestricted, distinguished by nothing. Indeed, the falsity of this is necessarily known, by the agreement of rational people, who agree that a universal cannot exist in external reality as an unrestricted universal, but only as something particular and determinate. This being so, a “bearer of attributes” means nothing more than something that admits of description, whether the attribute is termed essential or qualitative, as when we say: