  (ii) What is the meaning-relatum of a word like “cow”, a generic nominal expression? Here again The Manual of Reason contrasts the Nyāya view with that of the Mīmāṃsakas. One sub-school of Mīmāṃsakas (the Bhātta) claim that the meaning of “cow” is the universal cowhood, since sentences like “(The) cow is an animal”, or injunctive laws like “Never kick a cow”, say something about the entire class of cows, not about any one individual. Thus: