 the expression “mawjûd” is, in its first imposition in Arabic, paronymous, and every paronymous term by its construction gives the impression that there is in what it signifies an implicit subject and, in this subject, the meaning [ma‛nâ] of the maṣdar [the infinitive, functioning in Arabic as an abstract noun] from which [the term] was derived [i.e., as “white” implies, without explicitly mentioning, a subject in which whiteness is present]. For this reason the expression “mawjûd” has given the impression that there is in every thing a meaning/entity [ma‛nâ] in an implicit subject, and that this meaning/entity is what is signified by the expression “wujûd” [“finding” or “being found”]: so it gave the impression that wujûd is in an implicit subject, and wujûd was understood as being like an accident in a subject. (Book of Letters I,84, p.113,9–14)