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only part of a name, so a number of words often 

 compose one single name, and no more. Thus, in 

 the opening of the Paradise Lost, these lines, 



the fruit 



Of that forbidden tree, whose mortal taste 

 Brought death into the world, and all our woe, 

 With loss of Eden, till one greater Man 

 Restore us, and regain the blissful seat, 



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 yester- 

 day, by this predication we make but one assertion ; 

 whence it appears that " John Nokes, who was the 

 mayor of the town," 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, " died 

 yesterday." 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 ; one, 

 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 pro- 

 ceed to the distinctions which have been established 

 among names, not according to the words they are 

 composed of, but according to their signification. 



