 The consequences were far-reaching. Not only did this interpretation claim to provide an overall understanding of what Ockham was up to, but it also inevitably led to conclude that his whole nominalist program was bound to failure. All relational terms, indeed, are taken to be connotative terms in Ockham’s semantics. The program, consequently, was thought to require the semantical reduction of all relational terms to combinations of non-relational ones, which seems hardly possible. Thus, the question whether there are simple connotative terms or not in Ockham’s mental language is crucial to our understanding of the success of his overall ontological project. Since spoken and written languages are semantically derivative on mental language, it is vital that we get the semantics of mental language to work out right for Ockham, or else the systematic coherence of much of what he has to say will be in jeopardy.