Literature/1843/Mill


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Excerpts

 * A name is a word taken at pleasure to serve for a mark which may raise in our mind a thought like to some thought we had before, and which being pronounced to others may be to them a sign of what thought the speaker had before in his mind. (p. 27)‎
 * Proper names are not connotative: they denote the individuals who are called by them; but they do not6 indicate or imply any attributes as belonging to those individuals. When we name a child by the name Mary, or a dog by the name Caesar, these names are simply marks used to enable those individuals to be make subjects of discourse. It may be said, indeed, that we must have had some reason for giving them those names rather than any others: and this is true; but the name, once given, becomes independent of the reason. A man may have been named John because that was the name of his father; a town may have been Dartmouth, because it is situated at the mouth of the Dart. But it is no part of the signification of the word John, that the father of the person so called bore the same name; nor even of the word Dartmouth, to be situated at the mouth of the Dart. If sand should choke up the mouth of the river, or an earthquake change its course, and remove it to a distance from the town, there is no reason to think that the name of the town would be changed. That fact, therefore, can form no part of the signification of the word; for otherwise, when the fact ceased to be true, the name would cease to be applied. Proper names are attached to the objects themselves, and are not dependent upon the continuance of any attribute of the object. (p. 40)

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 * John Stuart Mill
 * A System of Logic

Chronology

 * Welby, Victoria Lady (1903). What Is Meaning? Studies in the Development of Significance. John Benjamins.
 * Bréal, Michel (1897). Semantics: Studies in the Science of Meaning. Nina Cust, trans., J. P. Postgate, ed. (1900).
 * Welby, Victoria Lady (1896). "Sense, meaning, and interpretation I" Mind 5: 24–37.
 * Welby, Victoria Lady (1896). "Sense, meaning, and interpretation II" Mind 5: 186–202.
 * Welby, Victoria Lady (1893). "Meaning and metaphor," Monist 3: 510–525.
 * Welby, Victoria Lady (1903). What Is Meaning? Studies in the Development of Significance. John Benjamins.
 * Bréal, Michel (1897). Semantics: Studies in the Science of Meaning. Nina Cust, trans., J. P. Postgate, ed. (1900).
 * Welby, Victoria Lady (1896). "Sense, meaning, and interpretation I" Mind 5: 24–37.
 * Welby, Victoria Lady (1896). "Sense, meaning, and interpretation II" Mind 5: 186–202.
 * Welby, Victoria Lady (1893). "Meaning and metaphor," Monist 3: 510–525.
 * Welby, Victoria Lady (1903). What Is Meaning? Studies in the Development of Significance. John Benjamins.
 * Bréal, Michel (1897). Semantics: Studies in the Science of Meaning. Nina Cust, trans., J. P. Postgate, ed. (1900).
 * Welby, Victoria Lady (1896). "Sense, meaning, and interpretation I" Mind 5: 24–37.
 * Welby, Victoria Lady (1896). "Sense, meaning, and interpretation II" Mind 5: 186–202.
 * Welby, Victoria Lady (1893). "Meaning and metaphor," Monist 3: 510–525.
 * Welby, Victoria Lady (1903). What Is Meaning? Studies in the Development of Significance. John Benjamins.
 * Bréal, Michel (1897). Semantics: Studies in the Science of Meaning. Nina Cust, trans., J. P. Postgate, ed. (1900).
 * Welby, Victoria Lady (1896). "Sense, meaning, and interpretation I" Mind 5: 24–37.
 * Welby, Victoria Lady (1896). "Sense, meaning, and interpretation II" Mind 5: 186–202.
 * Welby, Victoria Lady (1893). "Meaning and metaphor," Monist 3: 510–525.
 * Welby, Victoria Lady (1896). "Sense, meaning, and interpretation II" Mind 5: 186–202.
 * Welby, Victoria Lady (1893). "Meaning and metaphor," Monist 3: 510–525.