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Quote: names convey meaning only through their connotation, i.e., the attributes that the named objects must have

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Topic:
names as abbreviations for descriptions
Topic:
proper names

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From the preceding observations it will easily be collected that whenever the names given to objects convey any information-- that is, whenever they have properly any meaning--the meaning resides not in what they denote but in what they connote. [i.e., the meaning resides in the attributes which the named objects must have] The only names of objects which connote nothing are proper names, and these have, strictly speaking, no signification.   Google-1   Google-2

Published before 1923

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Quote: proper names have no signification; they do not convey any information about an object

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