Note 147

Thus, according to St Thomas, the term 'whiteness' primarily signifies the accident, and connotes (co-signifies) the carrier (where we can specify :  it connotes an appropriate carrier), while the term 'white' primarily signifies the carrier, and connotes the accident (whiteness). This matches perfectly with our earlier thematic result that carrier and accident partly overlap with respect to formal content, as symbolized in the next Figure (given earlier) :

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