  The other Mīmāṃaka sub-school (Prābhākara) claim that, in order to explain the fact that, on hearing a sentence, we grasp a unified proposition and not just a list of entities, the meaning-relatum of a word like “cow” is ‘an object connected with another’ (itarānvita). The meaning-relatum is a cow along with a ‘hook’ to link it with other meaning-relata. More precisely, the meaning of the word would be something like