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NAMES AND PROPOSITIONS. 



gorematic, and one or more Syncategorematic words, as A 

 heavy body, or A court of justice, they sometimes called a 

 mixed term; but this seems a needless multiplication of 

 technical expressions. A mixed term is, in the only useful 

 sense of the word, Categorematic. It belongs to the class of 

 what have been called many-worded names. 



For, as one word is frequently not a name, but only part 

 of a name, so a number of words often compose one single 

 name, and no more. These words, &quot;the place which the 

 wisdom or policy of antiquity had destined for the residence 

 of the Abyssinian princes,&quot; form in the estimation of the 

 logician only one name ; one Categorematic term. A mode 

 of determining whether any set of words makes only one 

 name, or more than one, is by predicating something of it, 

 and observing whether, by this predication, we make only one 

 assertion or several. Thus, when we say, John Nokes, who 

 was the mayor of the town, died yesterday by this predica 

 tion we make but one assertion; whence it appears that 

 &quot;John Nokes, who was the mayor of the town,&quot; is no more 

 than one name. It is true that in this proposition, besides 

 the assertion that John Nokes died yesterday, there is included 

 another assertion, namely, that John Nokes was mayor of the 

 town. But this last assertion was already made : we did not 

 make it by adding the predicate, &quot; died yesterday.&quot; Suppose, 

 however, that the words had been, John Nokes and the mayor 

 of the town, they would have formed two names instead of 

 one. For when we say, John Nokes and the mayor of the 

 town died yesterday, we make two assertions fone, that John 

 Nokes died yesterday ; the other, that the mayor of the town 

 died yesterday. 



It being needless to illustrate at any greater length the 

 subject of many- worded names, we proceed to the distinctions 

 which have been established among names, not according to 

 the words they are composed of, but according to their 

 signification. 



3. All names are names of something, real or imagi 

 nary ; but all things have not names appropriated to them 



