 It is important to be clear about the mixed ontological status of schemas. The template-text of the schema is a syntactic object, a string of characters, and has the same ontological presuppositions as numerals, words, formulas, and the like. For example, the template-text for the English naming schema—‘The expression … names the entity …’— is a forty-character expression involving twenty-seven letter-occurrences, six occurrences of the space, and seven occurrences of the period. On the other hand, the side condition is an intensional entity comparable to a proposition.