RELATION OF TOXES AXD GESTURES TO WORDS. l6l 



with SO much accuracy to define their meanings — i.e. to limit 

 their connotations in some directions, as well as to extend 

 them in others. 



Obviously, therefore, we are here in the presence of a 

 great distinction, and one which needs itself to be in some 

 way connoted. It is, indeed, but a special exhibition of the 

 one great distinction which I have carried through the whole 

 course of this work — namely, that between ideation as receptual 

 and conceptual. But it is none the less important to desig- 

 nate this special exhibition of it by means of well-defined 

 terms ; and I can only express surprise that such should not 

 already have been done by logicians. The terms which I 

 shall use are the following. 



By a connotative name I will understand the connotative 

 extension of a denotative name, whether such extension be 

 great or small, and, therefore, whether it be extended re- 

 ceptually or conceptually. But for the exclusively conceptual 

 extension of a name I will reserve the convenient term 

 denomination. This term, like those previously defined, was 

 introduced by the schoolmen, and by them was used as 

 synonymous with connotation. But it is evident that they 

 (and all subsequent writers) only had before their minds the 

 case of conceptual connotation, and hence they felt no need 

 of the distinction which for present purposes it is obviously 

 imperative to draw. Now, I do not think that any two more 

 appropriate words could be found whereby to express this 

 distinction than are these words connotation and denomination, 

 if for the purposes of my own subsequent analysis I am 

 allowed to define them in accordance with their etymology. 

 For, when so defined, a connotative sign will mean a 

 classificatory sign, whether conferred receptually or con- 

 ceptually ; while a denominative sign will mean a connotative 

 sign which has been conferred as such with a truly conceptual 

 intention — i.e. with an introspective appreciation of its 

 function as ail that logicians understand by a name. 



I will now sum up these sundry definitions. 



By an indicative sign I will understand a significant tone 



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