 The Oxford manuscript marks a new chapter in the text with the heading “Of his discourse at the beginning of the Eisagoge”. Here Avempace divides “meanings” into two kinds: intelligibles (ma‛qulat) and individuals (IB-taaliq: 42. 7). Intelligibles can exist either in the mind or in something outside of it and they are associated mainly with the universals. Avempace quotes Aristotle’s definition of the universal: “That which is by its nature predicated of more than one thing” (De interp. 17a 39) but he borrows the quotation from Alfarabi who commented on the sentence (Eisagoge, Dunlop 1956: 119. 4–13). Avempace has two interpretations for the passage. The first says: “that which is by its nature” refers to an actual resemblance so that universals contain similar individuals “at one and the same time”. By contrast, the second interpretation does not limit the universals to any moment, and Avempace writes: