The meaning of the proposition, therefore, is that the individual thing denoted by the subject has the attributes connoted by the predicate.
For whenever we bestow a name we are implicitly judging that the thing to which we apply the name presents the attributes connoted by that name, and thus we are virtually predicating the fact.
To assign the one common meaning, constituent of or connoted by a generic term, had never yet been put before them as a problem.
Take no note of the difference between one law and another, but explain to me what characteristic property it is, which is common to all Law, and is implied in or connoted by the name Law.
If we have difficulty in finding any common property connoted by the English word, the difficulty in the case of the Greek word is still greater.
But along with this idea, the title sophist also carried with it or connoted a certain invidious feeling.
The village of Abury was occasionally spelled Avereberie, at other times Albury, and with this latter form may be connoted Alberich,[360] the German equivalent to Auberon.
In Mexico cun meant pudenda muliebris, in London cunny and cunt carry the same meaning, and with cenote, the Mexican for cistern, may be connoted our English rivers Kennet and Kent.
The term Ganging Day applied to this festival may be connoted with the Singin 'een of the Scotch Hogmanay, and with the leader of St. Micah's rout may be connoted demagog.
With bacco or bacon may be connoted boukolos, the Greek for cowherd, whence bucolic.
But the mystic Gnosis connoted more than is covered by the word knowledge: it claimed to be the wisdom of the ancients, and to disclose the ideal value lying behind the letter of all mysteries, myths, and religious ordinances.
He saw that the distinction between Limited and Unlimited war connoted a cardinal distinction in the methods of waging it.
Such are the operations which are connoted by the true conception of "A fleet in being.
To defeat such a policy Anson's constitution and the strategy it connoted were thoroughly well adapted and easy to work.
They predicate of a thing some fact not involved in the signification of the name by which the proposition speaks of it; some attribute not connoted by that name.
He carries this doctrine so far as to say that unless mortality can be shown to be a consequence of the ultimate laws of animal organization, mortality is connoted by man, and “Man is Mortal” is a merely verbal proposition.
On this account it was that rationality, being connoted by the name man, was allowed to be a differentia of the class; but the peculiarity of cooking their food, not being connoted, was relegated to the class of accidental properties.
A person of clear ideas is a person who always knows in virtue of what properties his classes are constituted; what attributes are connoted by his general names.
The proposition, All men are mortal (for instance) shows that we have had experience from which we thought it followed that the attributes connoted by the term man, are a mark of mortality.
Thus, though we may infer from the quality of co-operation connoted by civilisation, that a civilised country will be a wealthy one, this may not be found true of such a country recently devastated by war or other calamity.
The validity of an argument based partly or wholly on a definition depends, in the first place, on the existence of things corresponding with the definition--that is, having the properties connoted by the name defined.
The simplest case is the establishing of a proprium as the direct consequence of some connoted attribute, as in the above example.
But the quality connoted by a word, and treated as always the same quality, is often only analogically the same.
But it frequently happens that the argument rests partly on the qualities connoted by the class name and partly on many other facts.
The so-called Genetic Definition, chiefly used in Mathematics, is a rule for constructing that which a name denotes, in such a way as to ensure its possessing the tributes connoted by the name.
The perception is only of one individual thing; but to describe it is to affirm a connexion between it and every other thing which is either denoted or connoted by any of the terms used.
A person of clear ideas, is a person who always knows in virtue of what properties his classes are constituted; what attributes are connoted by his general names.
To give a precise meaning to general names is, then, to fix with steadiness the attribute or attributes connoted by each concrete general name, and denoted by the corresponding abstract.
What, then, is that which is connoted by a name of number?
Genus and Differentia are said to be of the essence; that is, the properties signified by them are connoted by the name denoting the species.
And for merely marking out the objects denoted, Description, in which none of the connoted attributes are given, answers as well as logicians' so-called essential definition.
But there are also real connotative individual names, part of whose meaning is, that there exists only one individual with the connoted attribute, e.
A proprium of the species, however, is predicated of the species necessarily being an attribute, not indeedconnoted by the name, but following from an attribute connoted by it.
I think, however, that the beginning of the work was fixed for me by the essentially new departure in the history of England and France, connoted by the almost simultaneous accession of Charles II.
What is connoted by the term master is here the essential idea, that which is bound up with the idea connoted by servant; while the connotation of man or biped sinks into the character of an accessory or accompaniment.
Moreover, even if every master were a man, the qualities connoted by man are here accidental, as not being included in those connoted by the term master.
We never can observe all the particulars of a class, which is indefinite as to number of particulars, and definite only in respect of the attributes connoted by the class-term.
Their highest power was connoted by the word Europeanism, which stood for a supposed feeling of solidarity among all the peoples of the old Continent, and for a certain respect for the treaties on which the state-system reposed.
Coming from the world-reformer who, a short time before, had hurled the thunderbolts of his oratory against those who would barter human beings as chattels, this amazing compromise connoted a strange falling off.
It was at this time-point that they endeavored to join hands with their tumultuous Eastern neighbors, and that the one word "Bolshevism" connoted the revolutionary wave that swept over some of the Slav and German lands.
Certainly not: for when we inquire into the formal distinction connoted by these words, we find that it has no bearing upon such handicraft processes.
To be jealous of my husband connoted a lack of faith, and he had done nothing to betray my trust in him.
I realized now that it connotedother emotions less pure.
The suggestion was invariably hailed with delight by the women, who regarded the studio as an open sesame to forbidden fruit and free speech, while to the men it connoted models in the nude and bacchanalia.
As experimental discovery advanced, the substances classed with acids have been constantly multiplying, and by a natural consequence the attributes connoted by the word have receded and become fewer.
The essence of man, simply means the whole of the attributes connoted by the word; and any one of those attributes taken singly, is an essential property of man.
We have advanced far enough to know that one of the attributes connoted must be that of operating as a repulsive force; but this is certainly not all which must ultimately be included in the scientific definition of heat.
Those objects are brought under the name, by possessing the attributes connoted by it: but their possession of the attributes is the real condition on which the truth of the proposition depends; not their being called by the name.
Rationality, in short, is involved in the meaning of the word man; is one of the attributes connoted by the name.
The assertion in the major premiss is, that along with one of the two sets of attributes, we always find the other: that the attributes connoted by “man” never exist unless conjoined with the attribute called mortality.
The proposition, All men are mortal, (for instance) shows that we have had experience from which we thought it followed that the attributes connoted by the term man, are a mark of mortality.
When we say, A generous person is worthy of honour, we affirm coexistence between the two complicated phenomena connoted by the two terms respectively.
But carbonic acid, silica, sulphurous acid, have no hydrogen in their composition; that property cannot therefore be connoted by the term, unless those substances are no longer to be considered acids.
The attribute, therefore, of having the opposite sides equal, is a Proprium of the class parallelogram; and a Proprium of the first kind, which follows from the connoted attributes by way of demonstration.
The assertion in the major premise is, that along with one of the two sets of attributes, we always find the other: that the attributes connoted by "man" never exist unless conjoined with the attribute called mortality.
Now all this may seem quite impertinent to our subject, but I have discussed the point at length because complexity is certainly one of the marks of the Vagabond, and it is important to make quite clear what is connoted by that term.
But so powerful is the influence of the imagination over the body, that the vivid imagination connoted by the artistic temperament controls the nervous system, and when it reaches a certain intensity expresses itself in some abnormal way.
He knew very well what he connoted by that modification: it meant some sign, some signal from Elizabeth that should confirm the secret welcome that her amazement had so instantly smothered.
It connoted so absolute a recognition of Rosalie's worth that she decided--lest it should fall through--she would not mention it to Harry till either it was fallen through or was afoot.
It was not the house; it was the significance of all connoted by the house.
But to the Gnostic and his kind it connoted a 'fall', a passage from the glory of Virginity to a state of Sin.
One must remember, of course, that in that rigorous and ascetic court high rank connoted no pomp or luxury.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "connoted" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
