 Nevertheless, even if with these distinctions Aquinas’ solution of the paralogism works and what he says about the existence and unity vs. multiplicity of a common nature can be given a consistent interpretation, the emergence of the paralogism itself and the complexities involved in explaining it away, as well as the problems involved in providing this consistent interpretation show the inherent difficulties of this account. The main difficulty is the trouble of keeping track of what we are talking about when it becomes crucial to know what pertains to what on account of what; in general, when the conditions of identity and distinction of the items we are talking about become variable and occasionally rather unclear.