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Logos must be drawn at the place where this distinction first 

 obtains ; and this place is where judgment is concerned with 

 conception, or with the bestowing of names in the sense 

 previously explained as denominative. The subsequent work- 

 ing up of names into propositions is merely a further exhi- 

 bition of the self-same faculty. It is as true of judgment when 

 displayed in denomination as it is of judgment when displayed 

 in predication, that "it is not itself a modified imagination, 

 because the imaginations which may give rise to it persist 

 unmodified in the mind side by side with it." For, as we have 

 seen, the act of denominating (as distinguished from deno- 

 tating) is in and of itself an act of predicating. When a 

 naturalist bestows a name upon a new species of plant or 

 animal, he \\dj=> judged ^l resemblance ^xvA pi-edicates a fact — i.e. 

 that the hitherto un-named form belongs to certain genus or 

 kind. And so it is with all other names when conceptually 

 bestowed, because everywhere such names are expressions of 

 conceptual classification — the bringing together of like things, 

 or the separation of unlike. In short, all names which present 

 any conceptual meaning are in themselves condensed proposi- 

 tions, or " material predications ; " and only as such can they 

 afterwards become terms, i.e. constitute the essential elements 

 of any more extended proposition, or " formal predication." 

 Therefore it is the faculty of naming wherein is first displayed 

 — and, according to the doctrine of Nominalism, zvhereby is 

 first attained — that great and distinctive characteristic of the 

 human mind which Mr. Mivart and those who think with him 

 have in view ; and, unless we espouse the doctrine of Realism — 

 which neither these nor any other psychologists with whom 

 I have to do are likely now-a-days to countenance, — it is 

 plain that " the simplest element of thought " is a concept. 



If I do not apologize for having occupied so much space 

 over so obvious a point, it is only because I believe that any 

 one who reads these pages will sympathize with my desire 

 to avoid ambiguity, and thus to reduce the question before 

 us to its naked reality. So far, it will be observed, this 



