214 OPERATIONS SUBSIDIARY TO INDUCTION. 



mankind have always given general names to objects as well 

 as attributes, and indeed before attributes : but tbe general 

 names given to objects imply attributes, derive their whole 

 meaning from attributes ; and are chiefly useful as the lan- 

 guage by means of which we predicate the attributes which 

 they connote. 



It remains to be considered what principles are to be 

 adhered to in giving general names, so that these names, and 

 the general propositions in which they fill a place, may con- 

 duce most to the purposes of Induction. 



