 Exactly the same holds true, according to Suárez, of the other sorts of entia rationis he countenances: negations, privations, and abstractions. They are not, but this does not preclude our thinking of them and speaking about them. Our doing so in no way invests them with existence of any kind. This is how Suárez insists that entia rationis “must be granted” even though they lack “any true likeness with real beings” (DM LIV 1.4).