 Cook Wilson further reasoned that, when one states that ‘a is a triangle’, one is predicating of a the universal ‘triangularity’ and that, analogously, in stating that ‘triangularity is a universal’ one would then put the universal ‘triangularity’ in the subject position—the ‘nominative case to the verb’ as he quaintly puts it (SI, 349)—and treat it as if it were a particular, while putting ‘universal’ in the predicate position. But to talk about the universal in this way would require per impossibile that one apprehends the universal in abstraction from any of its particularizations. Cook Wilson held his conception as being, if not popular among philosophers, at least in accordance with ordinary language and common sense (SI, 344–345).