  There is one odd view that occurs at least twice, which may have as a consequence that there are no empty terms. In the thirteenth century, Lambert of Lagny (sometimes identified as Lambert of Auxerre) proposed that a term such as ‘chimera’ which stands for no existing thing must “revert to nonexistent things.” So if we suppose that no roses exist, then the term ‘rose’ stands for nonexistent  things.[19]   A related view also occurs much later; Ashworth reports that Menghus Blanchellus Faventinus held that negative terms such as ‘nonman’ are true of non-beings, and he concluded from this that ‘A nonman is a chimera’ is true (apparently assuming that ‘chimera’ is also true of nonbeings).[20] However, neither of these views seems to have been clearly developed, and neither was widely  adopted.[21]  Nor is it clear that either of them is supposed to have the consequence that there are no empty terms.