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Mill, J.S., A System of Logic, London, 1843, 8th ed 1872. Google
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book I, chapter 2, section 5 excerpted p. 269-271 in Martinich, A.P. (ed), The Philosophy of Language, 2nd edition, New York: Oxford University Press, 1990.
Published before 1923
269 ;;Quote: a subject is anything that possesses attributes
269 ;;Quote: a connotative term (e.g., white) denotes a subject and connotes an attribute (e.g., whiteness)
269 ;;Quote: all concrete names are connotative because the denoted subjects are defined by attributes; e.g., man is corporal, animal, rational and human
270 ;;Quote: a concrete name (e.g., man) directly denotes subjects, and indirectly connotes the defining attributes
270 ;;Quote: proper names denote individuals, but they do not imply any attributes; they are not connotative
270 ;;Quote: a name may uniquely identify an individual by attributes; uniqueness may be part of the name, e.g., 'only...', 'first...' or 'father of...'
271 ;;Quote: names convey meaning only through their connotation, i.e., the attributes that the named objects must have
271+;;Quote: proper names have no signification; they do not convey any information about an object
271 ;;Quote: a proper name is but an unmeaning mark for knowing that an assertion applies to something with which we were previously acquainted
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