On the other hand, what is modified very early on, beginning with the analyses of Adam Smith, A. de Jussieu, or Vicq d'Azyr, at the time of Jones or Anquetil Duperron, is the configuration of positivities: the way in which, within each one, the representative elements function in relation to one another, in which they perform their double role as designation and articulation, in which they succeed, by means of the interplay of comparisons, in establishing an order.