The Razor Principle: How to Get by Without Relationships

In Occam's theory, all expressions apart from substance and quality are connotative terms. A connotative name by contrast refers to two things, one directly and one indirectly. When we speak of a cigar as long, it may seem that there must be a real length in the cigar. But speaking of quantity just means that the parts of a substance are at a certain distance from one another.