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Why did he have to come get you? Were you injured very badly? He took off his glasses and started to polish them, which meant he was thinking hard about something. I said:Well, get going, pal. I dont know, Mom. All concrete general names are connotative. The wordman, for example, denotes Peter, Jane, John, and an indefinite number of other individuals, of whom, taken as a class, it is the name. But it is applied to them, because they possess, and to signify that they possess, certain attributes. These seem to be, corporeity, animal life, rationality, and a certain external form, which for distinction we call the human. Every existing thing, which possessed all these attributes, would be called a man; and any thing which possessed none of them, or only one, or two, or even three of them without the fourth, would not be so called. For example, if in the interior of Africa there were to be discovered a race of animals possessing reason equal to that of human beings, but with the form of an elephant, they would not be called men. Swifts Houyhnhnms would not be so called. Or if such newly-discovered beings possessed the form of man without any vestige of reason, it is probable that some other name than that of man would be found for them. How it happens that there can be any doubt about the matter, will appear hereafter. The word man, therefore, signifies all these attributes, and all subjects which possess these attributes. But it can be predicated only of the subjects. What we call men, are the subjects, the individual Stiles and Nokes; not the qualities by which their humanity is constituted. The name, therefore, is said to signify the subjects directly, the attributes indirectly; it denotes the subjects, and implies, or involves, or indicates, or as we shall say henceforth connotes, the attributes. It is a connotative name. All A is B Im positive. But thanks, you’re very sweet. stew fit whirl Well, now, Rob, its going to take a couple of hours for us to investigate this thing, but I think we’re really on the right track now. I think we really and truly are. Of course, it could be a trap, but I don’t think so. Now, look, Rob, I’ll put it up to you. You’re a grown man and wemay as well be frank. I’m going to send one of the boys to take a look. I showed him the skinned knuckles on my hand and he though that was swell. He told me where hed left my car, and started back to the hotel, and I took another little snifter of the UDL and thought I’d done better than a green hand on the Crandall job at that. The only way I could have hit him any harder would have been to have been bigger. I only weigh a hundred and ninety and that limits how hard you can sock. The dog hesitated a moment, growling ominously, then lay down, his head within an inch or two of Robs leg, fangs still bared. § 1. In order that we may possess a language perfectly suitable for the investigation and expression of general truths, there are two principal, and several minor requisites. The first is, that every general name should have a meaning, steadily fixed, and precisely determined. When, by the fulfillment of this condition, such names as we possess are fitted for the due performance of their functions, the next requisite, and the second in order of importance, is that we should possess a name wherever one is needed; wherever there is any thing to be designated by it, which it is of importance toexpress. Whether the remainder of our mental states are similarly dependent on physical conditions, is one of thevexatæ questiones in the science of human nature. It is still disputed whether our thoughts, emotions, and volitions are generated through the intervention of material mechanism; whether we have organs of thought and of emotion, in the same sense in which we have organs of sensation. Many eminent physiologists hold the affirmative. These contend that a thought (for example) is as much the result of nervous agency, as a sensation; that some particular state of our nervous system, in particular of that central portion of it called the brain, invariably precedes, and is presupposed by, every state of our consciousness. According to this theory, one state of mind is never really produced by another: all are produced by states of body. When one thought seems to call up another by association, it is not really a thought which recalls a thought; the association did not exist between the two thoughts, but between the two states of the brain or nerves which preceded the thoughts: one of those states recalls the other, each being attended in its passage by the particular state of consciousness which is consequent on it. On this theory the uniformities of succession among states of mind would be mere derivative uniformities, resulting from the laws of succession of the bodily states which cause them. There would be no original mental laws, no Laws of Mind in the sense in which I use the term, at all; and mental science would be a mere branch, though the highest and most recondite branch, of the science of physiology. M. Comte, accordingly, claims the scientific cognizance of moral and intellectual phenomena exclusively for physiologists; and not only denies to Psychology, or Mental Philosophy properly so called, the character of a science, but places it, in the chimerical nature of its objects and pretensions, almost on a par with astrology. Then how would you know she was young? Who are the boys? I asked. As they reached the bottom of the staircase, Kaitlynn hurried on up to check on Noah, who had dropped off to sleep quickly after having his supper earlier. Roy turned to Cleo.Im just going to give it one more go. I’ll try to start the car again. If not, I’ll walk down the drive until I get a signal — sounds like the rain has stopped.’ I said to Bill Maxwell:The laws got me, Bill. I’ll be back after my sixty pretty soon. It means if you think it was unusual, then you think it was unusual. Apparently, Dr. Lang didnt think it was so unusual because she permitted it. The phenomena of mind, then, are the various feelings of our nature, both those improperly called physical and those peculiarly designated as mental; and by the laws of mind, I mean the laws according to which those feelings generate one another. I dont like to think you’re... wanting for anything. Not here? Kaitlynn said, anxiously..