 In short, then, the content of the thought derives from the real, formal structure in the mind of the thinker and not from the object. That holds fixed across all episodes of thought. It is just that some thoughts are about something and others about nothing at all. Their being about nothing, insists Suárez, hardly robs them of their contentfulness: the motion of a missed punch is a real motion, and not the same as the motion of a missed kick; but neither makes contact, and so in neither case is there something contacted, something kicked or punched. On the contrary, nothing is kicked in a missed kick, and nothing punched in a missed punch. In the same way, then, nothing is thought or referred to when there is no object of thought or reference. In such cases, all the causation involved eventuates from and reaches only the actual formal structures of an actual mind: