 For Auriol, Socrates and a concept grasping Socrates, then, are the same thing with differing types of existence. That they are “the same thing” Auriol means quite literally. He says that “a thing and its intention do not differ numerically with respect to anything absolute”; they are the same thing strictly speaking. What thing and intention differ by is a respect or a relation. And this is no ordinary respect “fixed to or superimposed upon that thing, as are other relations, rather it is utterly intrinsic and indistinguishably joined to it.” This intrinsic relation, Auriol tells us, is the appearance of the thing as an object of perception (apparere) to a perceiver (hence the term esse apparens). For Auriol, then, it is intrinsic to each and every thing to have two different types of being: real or extra-mental being on the one hand, and intentional or objective being on the other. Unlike real being, the thing’s intentional being needs a perceiver in order to actualize it. This is only to say that it is through the act of conceiving that a thing is put into intentional being.