The function of Naming, and particularly of General Names, in Induction, may be recapitulated as follows.
The number of general names in a language, and the degree of generality of those names, afford a test of the knowledge of the era, and of the intellectual insight which is the birthright of any one born into it.
The predicables are a fivefold division of General Names, not grounded as usual on a difference in their meaning, that is, in the attribute which they connote, but on a difference in the kind of class which they denote.
Ordinarily our notion or concept of the common features signified by general names is vague and hazy.
The Controversy about Universals--Difficulties concerning the Relation of General Names to Thought and to Reality, 120 PART III.
Some logicians in expressing the Law of Identity have their eye specially upon the objects signified by general names or abstract names, man, education.
The predicables are a five-fold division of General Names, not grounded as usual on a difference in their meaning, that is, in the attribute which they connote, but on a difference in the kind of class which they denote.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "general names" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
