There be also other names, called “negative,” which are notes to signify that a word is not the name of the thing in question; as these words, “nothing,” “no man,” “infinite,” “indocible,” “three want four,” and the like; which are nevertheless of use in reckoning, or in correcting of reckoning, and call to mind our past cogitations, though they be not names of anything, because they make us refuse to admit of names not rightly used.

All other names are but insignificant sounds; and those of two sorts. One when they are new, and yet their meaning not explained by definition; whereof there have been abundance coined by schoolmen, and puzzled philosophers.