8 Owen—Meaning and Function of Thought-Connectives. 
But the order is this time relative, not absolute. It is not 
hinted where on the globe each state or either belongs. It 
is however distinctly declared that they belong together. 
Instruction of this relative type is also offered by words. 
Given the Latin “ bonarum, ” its termination constitutes an order 
to put the idea of goodness with some idea conceived as plural, 
feminine and genitive. This sort of instruction I call associa- 
tional. An idea with the function-label may be conceived as 
saying to any other idea: “ No matter where you go, I go here." 
An idea with the association-label says rather to one other idea: 
“ No matter where you go, I go with you. ” 
These distinctions, guiding as they do the course of my in¬ 
vestigation, seem to me worthy of emphasis, and again because 
they are generally neglected. For instance, in the case of the 
verb, forms which stand for meanings (e. g. tense-signs), others 
which name function (e. g. the ending of the adjunctively em¬ 
ployed participle) and still others which show association (or 
agreement, e. g. personal endings) are made to ride together in 
one categorical omnibus called a conjugation. As well bring to 
a mason, in one hod, bricks and plans, mortar and specifications 
and claim to ease his task by collective presentation. 
MULTIPLE SYMBOLIZATION. 
In the study of language it is helpful to bear in mind that 
the same word is often charged with several duties. The power 
to perform them is a mere survival or revival from a time in 
which, it is believed, the judgment itself was expressed by a 
single word. Of this method even historic examples are not 
wanting. Thus the Latin “ pluit ” has no less expressive power 
than the English “ it is raining. ” Again, in the sentence “ the 
birds sing ” it is plain that, while one term only is expressed 
by “ birds, ” the other term and the relation are necessarily ex¬ 
pressed by “ sing. ” That is, the word “ sing ” in some way 
stands for two ideas, which on other occasions maybe expressed 
by a word for each (e. g. “ the birds are singing ”). The action 
of the word in such cases may be known as multiple symboliza¬ 
tion. This name may be applied also to the action of the word 
