30 NAMES AND PROPOSITIONS. 



in the subject as well as in the predicate of a proposi- 

 tion. In English, this cannot, generally speaking, he 

 done. We may say, The earth is round ; but we 

 cannot say, Round is easily moved ; we must say, A 

 round object. This distinction, however, is rather 

 grammatical than logical. Since there is no differ- 

 ence of meaning between round, and a round object, it 

 is only custom which prescribes that on any given 

 occasion one shall be used, and not the other. We 

 shall therefore, without scruple, speak of adjectives as 

 names, whether in their own right, or as representa- 

 tive of the more circuitous forms of expression above 

 exemplified. The other classes of subsidiary words 

 have no title whatever to be considered as names. An 

 adverb, or an accusative case, cannot under any circum- 

 stances (except when their mere letters and syllables 

 are spoken of) figure as one of the terms of a proposi- 

 tion. 



Words which are not capable of being used as 

 names, but only as parts of names, were called by 

 some of the schoolmen Syncategorematic terms : from 

 <rw, with, and /car^opec*, to predicate, because it was 

 only with some other word that they could be predi- 

 cated. A word which could be used either as the 

 subject or predicate of a proposition, without being 

 accompanied by any other word, was termed by the 

 same authorities a Categorematic term. A combi- 

 nation of one or more Categorematic, 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 



