 Llull uses the term “evacuate” to illustrate how all the senses of each one of the combinations are extracted, using the intellect as agent. The evacuation starts “by making statements, then we interchange subjects with predicates, and then put questions” (The Ars generalis ultima 6–1. Translation Yanis Dambergs) That is, statements are formed using a term from the first meaning of the alphabet (e.g., B, C: goodness is great); then another one is formed by using the first and second meaning of the alphabet (e.g., b, B: difference is good), and then the subject and the predicate are inverted (e.g., B, b: goodness is different). There are 12 meanings in total for each combination of letters. The example for BC is: