 Now, several commentators, following Trentman and Spade, concluded on this basis that there are no simple connotative terms in Ockham’s mental language. They reasoned as follows: a connotative term is synonymous with its nominal definition, but there is no synonymy in mental language according to Ockham; mental language, therefore, cannot contain both a simple connotative term and its complex nominal definition; since it must certainly have the resources for formulating adequate definitions, what must be dispensed with is the defined simple term; and since all connotative terms are supposed to have a nominal definition, it follows that mental language contains only absolute terms (along with syncategorematic ones, of course). It even came to be supposed in this line of interpretation, that the very central point of Ockham’s nominalist program was to show that if anything can be truly said about the world, it can be said using only absolute and syncategorematic terms, and that this is precisely what happens in mental language.