Single Relations Betioeen Thoughts. 
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adverb, obtaining the sentence: “I repeatedly (several times) 
visited my uncle. ” In French I may use the form “ visitais, ” 
the verb itself having in this case a genuinely plural (frequenta¬ 
tive) value, not at all to be confounded with that of the spurious 
plural “ visitames. ” 
I do not know any case in which thoughts consecutively ex¬ 
pressed (the only ones considered in this investigation) are char 
acterized by the connective as homogeneous. For although 
thoughts thus characterizable are often connected by “ and, ” it 
will be seen that they are actually characterized somewhat differ¬ 
ently. I therefore neglect homogeneous thoughts, as not handled 
by connectives, and pass to the examination of heterogeneous 
groups. These will be found to be of three sorts: concordant, 
discordant and neutral. 
Of the members of a concordant group it is conceived that, 
though they are different, they exist together naturally, with¬ 
out occasioning surprise. Thus, age and feebleness are obvi¬ 
ously heterogeneous qualities; yet they are grouped together in 
the description of an individual, without occasioning surprise; 
indeed, given the first, the second rather fulfills an expectation. 
To illustrate the second group-variety, let the same individual 
be characterized not only by age, but also by activity. The facts 
of the case permit activity to group itself with age, the two 
being qualities of the same person. But the presence of activity 
with age is, to say the least, unexpected. This group may, then, 
be characterized as discordant. 
To illustrate the last kind of group let the same individual be 
distinguished firstly, by honesty; secondly, by beauty. The 
facts of the case permit honesty to group itself with beauty, the 
two being qualities of the same person. But it should be noted 
that personal beauty and honesty are not conceived as in the na¬ 
ture of things belonging together. That is, there is nothing 
worthy of the name of concordance. Nor, on the other hand, 
is there the slightest suggestion of discordance. This group, 
then, being neither concordant nor discordant, may be called 
neutral. 
This distinction established, it is practicable to open the study 
of the relations expressed by thought-connectives with 
