The third division is into Connotative and Non-connotative (the latter being wrongly called Absolute).
But there are also real connotative individual names, part of whose meaning is, that there exists only one individual with the connoted attribute, e.
This is still more the case in propositions with connotative subjects.
To ask, as is sometimes done, whether Proper names are connotative or denotative, is merely a confusion of language.
If we apply the word connotation to signify merely the suggestion of an attribute in whatever grammatical connexion, then an abstract name is undoubtedly as much connotative as an adjective.
Known sometimes as the Connotative or the Denotative-Connotative view.
What Mill did was not to invert Scholastic usage but to revive the distinction, and extend the word connotative to general names on the ground that they also imported the possession of attributes.
Occam carried this a step farther towards clear light by including among Connotative Terms such general names as "monk," name of classes that at once suggest a definite attribute.
The question, however, whether a term is connotative or not, has to be decided, not by its origin, but by its use.
Many of our own family names are obviously connotativein their origin, implying either some personal peculiarity, e.
Give six instances each of connotativeand non-connotative terms.
We now return to the division of terms into connotative and non-connotative.
The division of terms intoconnotative and non-connotative is based on their possession of one quantity or two.
Cullen says his experience has not confirmed this as a true effect of chewing the root.
Who drank very hard the whole night through Cups of strong mead, made from honey when new, Metheglin they called it, a mighty strong brew, Their whistles to wet for the morrow.
One grain of this given three times a day is of service for relieving dropsy from disease of the heart.
Connotative names have hence been also called denominative, because the subject which they denote is denominated by, or receives a name from, the attribute which they connote.
It is otherwise when objects are spoken of by connotative names.
A non-connotative term is one which signifies a subject only, or an attribute only.
In the case of connotative names, the meaning, as has been so often observed, is the connotation; and the definition of a connotative name, is the proposition which declares its connotation.
Words not otherwise connotative may, in the mode just adverted to, acquire a special or technical connotation.
It must not however be supposed that such names, when introduced, differ in any respect, as to their mode of signification, from other connotative names.
Thus in our former example, All men are mortal, Socrates is a man, therefore Socrates is mortal, the subject and predicate of the major premiss are connotative terms, denoting objects and connoting attributes.
But it is easy to produce words which are real instances of connotative individual names.
In the former, a connotative name is defined by a part only of its connotation; in the latter, by something which forms no part of the connotation at all.
In regard to such names of attributes as are connotative, and express attributes of those attributes, there is no difficulty: like other connotative names they are defined by declaring their connotation.
When the positive name is connotative, the corresponding negative name is connotative likewise; but in a peculiar way, connoting not the presence but the absence of an attribute.
Connotative names do not precede, but follow, the attributes which they connote.
Thus in our former example, All men are mortal, Socrates is a man, therefore Socrates is mortal, the subject and predicate of the major premise are connotative terms, denoting objects and connoting attributes.
If we now suppose the subject also to be a connotative name, the meaning expressed by the proposition has advanced a step further in complication.
Again, in the psychogenesis of the child we noted how important a part is played in the development of pre-conceptual predication by the mere apposition of connotative terms—such apposition being rendered inevitable by the laws of association.
Thirdly, higher up in the stratified deposits, we meet with overwhelming evidence of the connotative extension of these denotative terms.
In the growing child, as we have seen, pre-conceptual predication is contemporary with—or occupies the same psychological level as—the connotative extension of denotative terms.
The degree to which such connotative extension of a name may take place depends, of course, on the degree in which the mind is able to take cognizance of resemblances or analogies.
Connotative terms--denote a subject, and imply an attribute.
Non-connotative Terms--denote a subject only and an attribute only.
The effectiveness of the expression may often be strengthened by the addition of specific, picture-making, imitative, and connotative words, as well as of figures of speech that clarify the ideas and stimulate the imagination.
Is the diction literary or colloquial, specific or general, original or trite, connotative or denotative?
