6 Owen—Meaning and Function of Thought- Connectives. 
The new ideas are related sometimes with one old one and 
sometimes with another. It is convenient to use with all alike 
the name of adjunct, meaning thereby an added idea plus its re¬ 
lation expressed or understood. 
In illustration let an essential judgment be expressed by the 
sentence: “ the priest employed a lawyer.” Suppose now that 
I wish to amplify this judgment by an idea of priority. This 
idea must appear as last term in a new thought, whose first term 
may be either of the original three terms. It is accordingly 
possible to construct three amplified judgments, respectively ex¬ 
pressible by three amplified sentences. (1) “ The prior or former 
priest employed a lawyer. ” (2) “ The priest employed a former 
lawyer. ” (3) “ The priest formerly employed a lawyer. ” In the 
last case that which is conceived as prior is the “ employment, ” 
the relation of employer to employee. In the other cases it is 
respectively the “ priest ” and the “ lawyer. ” 
Illustrating again, I might use the phrase “ a feeble old 
priest." My first term in this case has two adjuncts of equally 
direct bearing upon itself. A sufficient number of examples 
would justify the proposition that the same term may have co¬ 
ordinate adjuncts to the number of n. 
Again I might speak of a “remarkably old priest.” In this 
case primarily the “ priest " is conceived as “ old ” and second¬ 
arily this “age” is thought of as “remarkable.” Generalizing 
again, I make the further proposition that each adjunct may 
have a sub-adjunct and this last another and so on to the nth 
degree of subordination. 
Terms, then, and adjuncts are the elements for which the sen¬ 
tence properly stands. But other elements sometimes intrude. 
For instance, “All men (shut the door, please) are animals.” 
Of such elements it is enough to say that, although they are in 
the thought, they are not of it. 
THE SYMBOLIZING PROCESS. 
It is the peculiar office of language to establish in the hearer’s 
(or reader’s) mind the thought of the speaker. This process is 
commonly called conveyance. The figure is somewhat unfortun¬ 
ate, as it is obviously impossible to convey any act or product 
