l62 MENTAL EVOLUTION IN MAN. 



or gesture intentionally expressive of a mental state ; but yet 

 not in any sense of the word denominative. 



By a denotative sign I will understand the receptual mark- 

 ing of particular objects, qualities, actions, &c. 



By a connotative sign I will understand the classificatory 

 attribution of qualities to objects named by the sign, whether 

 such attribution be due to receptual or to conceptual 

 operations of the mind. 



By a denominative sign I will understand a connotative 

 sign consciously bestowed as such, or with a full conceptual 

 appreciation of its office and purpose as a name. 



By a predicative sign I will mean a proposition, or the 

 conceptual apposition of two denominative terms, expressive 

 of the speaker's intention to connote something of the one by 

 means of the other. 



