 The expression ‘syncategorematic word’ should be taken in a broad sense here; it includes not only classical syncategorematic words such as ‘and’, ‘if’, ‘every’, etc., but also expressions such as ‘infinite’ or ‘whole’, which can be used both categorematically and syncategorematically. Thus, the sentence ‘Infinita sunt finita’ (‘The infinite are finite’ — another example of a sophisma that cannot be translated into English without disambiguating it) is false if ‘infinite’ is used categorematically, for in that case it reads, ‘Things that are infinite are finite.’ But it is true if ‘infinite’ is used syncategorematically, for in that case it reads, ‘Finite things are infinite in number’ or ‘There are infinitely many finite things’ (See Heytesbury, Sophismata, sophisma xviii, fol.130va). This is another example of the kind of distinction that was used to solve the sophisma.