[Greek: Ta\ lego/mena], as here used by Aristotle, coincides in meaning with what the Stoics afterwards called [Greek: Ta\ lekta/]--of two classes: 1. [Greek: _lekta\ au)totelê=_], one branch of which, [Greek: ta\ a)xiô/mata], are equivalent to the Aristotelian [Greek: ta\ kata\ sumplokê\n lego/mena]. 2. [Greek: _lekta\ e)llipê=_], equivalent to [Greek: ta\ a)/neu sumplokê=s lego/mena] (Diogen. Laert. vii. 43, 44, 63, 64; Sext. Emp. adv. Mathemat. viii. 69, 70, 74): equivalent also, seemingly, to [Greek: ta\ dianoêta\] in Aristotle: [Greek: o( dianoêto\s A)ristome/nês] (Anal. Pr. I. p. 47, b. 22). Hobbes observes (Computation or Logic, part i. 2, 5): "Nor is it at all necessary that every name should be the name of something. For as these, _a man_, _a tree_, _a stone_, are the names of the things themselves, so the images of a man, of a tree, of a stone, which are represented to men sleeping, have their names also, though they be not things, but only fictions and phantasms of things. For we can remember these; and therefore it is no less necessary that they have names to mark and signify them, than the things themselves. Also this word _future_ is a name; but no future thing has yet any being. Moreover, that which neither is, nor has been, nor ever shall or ever can be, has a name--_impossible_. To conclude, this word _nothing_ is a name, which yet cannot be name of any thing; for when we subtract two and three from five, and, so nothing remaining, we would call that subtraction to mind, this speech _nothing remains_, and in it the word _nothing_, is not unuseful. And for the same reason we say truly, _less than nothing_ remains, when we subtract more from less; for the mind feigns such remains as these for doctrine's sake, and desires, as often as is necessary, to call the same to memory. But seeing every name has some relation to that which is named, though that which we name be not always a thing that has a being in nature, yet is lawful for doctrine's sake to apply the word _thing_ to whatsoever we name; as it were all one whether that thing truly existent, or be only feigned." The Greek neuter gender ([Greek: to\ lego/menon] or [Greek: to\ lekto/n, ta\ lego/mena] or [Greek: ta\ lekta/]) covers all that Hobbes here includes under the word _thing_.--Scholia ad Aristot. Physic. I. i. p. 323, a. 21, Brand.: [Greek: o)noma/zontai me\n kai\ ta\ mê\ o)/nta, o(ri/zontai de\ mo/na ta\ o)/nta.]]