Such a scattering of words constitutes an articulation inferior to the unity of the name (whether substantival or adjectival) as required by the naked form of the proposition: none of them possesses in its own right, and in an isolated state, a fixed and determinate representative content; they cannot cover an idea even an accessory one until they have been linked together with other words; whereas nouns and verbs are 'absolute significants', these words, on the other hand, have no power of signification except in a relative mode.