  In fact, it is this last sort of view that most reductive realists during the medieval period actually hold. Indeed, as we are interpreting Harclay, this is precisely the view he goes on to develop in the discussion we have been  following.[23]   Simmias’s being taller than Socrates is to be identified, on his view, not with Simmias’s height tout court, but with Simmias’s height in certain circumstances—including the circumstance that Socrates is  five-feet-ten.[24]  To put Harclay’s view in a slightly different way, which will help to bring out its semantic consequences, we might say that in a world in which Simmias exists by himself a predication of the form ‘Simmias is taller than Socrates’ will be false, and hence nothing will correspond to the relational term ‘taller than’. But in a world in which Simmias is six-feet-tall while Socrates is five-feet-ten, a predication of the same form will be true, and in this world there will be something corresponding to ‘taller’, namely, Simmias’s height. In such a world, medieval philosophers would say that ‘taller’ primarily signifies Simmias’s height, but indirectly signifies or connotes the height of  Socrates.[25]