  (ii) The semantic point is that the Nyāya espouse a version of the correspondence theory of truth, according to which true sentences correspond to facts. It is alleged that true negative sentences (e.g. “The pot is not on the ground”) correspond to ‘negative facts’. Facts, however, are all, for the Nyāya, of the same basic relational form, ‘bRa’ (they are said to have a qualificand-relation-qualifier structure; i.e. they are complexes of existing entities). This restriction on what constitutes a fact is expressible via the following semantical principle: