 The active mode of understanding and the active mode of signifying are the intellectual apprehension of the mode of being and the corresponding relation of consignification whereby the part of speech indicates that mode of being (QPm; QPm-1980: 153). Hence, the active mode of understanding and the active mode of signifying are both notionally different and features of different things. Nevertheless, they are linked by a causal relation, because the mode of understanding immediately causes the mode of signifying. Thus, the active modes of signifying and understanding are similar (QPm; QPm-1980: 158).