Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: PART I.?The Term. CHAPTER I. On the Various Kinds of Terms. A TERM (so called from terminus, a boundary, because the terms are the two extremes or boundaries of the proposition) is a word or combination of words -which may stand by itself as the subject or predicate of a Proposition; it expresses either an individual, a group of individuals, an attribute, or a group of attributes. This definition obviously excludes all articles, adverbs, interjections, conjunctions, prepositions, and oblique cases of nouns. It also excludes verbs; for though a verb expresses attributes, and often serves at once for the copula and the predicate (or part of the predicate), as in the propositions ' John walks, ' ' William fears Thomas, ' it must, in a logical proposition stated according to strict form, always be analysed into the copula and participle: thus the above propositions, when stated logically, become ' John is walking, ' ' William is fearing Thomas V Apronoun is only significant as standing in the place of a substantive, and therefore we may limit ourselves to the consideration of substantives, adjectives, and participles. 1 A proposition of which the verb is not analysed into the copula and a participle is called by the older logicians ' secundi adjacentis, ' in contradistinction to the form of proposition as ordinarily stated in Logic, which is called ' tertii adjacentis? Thus vir currit is a proposition secundi adjacentis, vir est currens is a proposition tertii adja entis. By the older logicians a term was defined as a Cate- gorematic word (from raTi/yopiya ' something which can be predicated'), i. e. a word or combination of words which can stand by itself as the predicate of a proposition. All words or combinations of words which require to be joined with some other word