attributives

Four of the more common ones: 1. Identifiers also known as “attributives”.

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Four of the more common ones: 1. Identifiers also known as “attributives”.

The First Five Pages

Four of the more common ones: 1. Identifiers also known as “attributives”.

The First Five Pages

All common terms, including attributives, are arrived at by abstraction, but they are not therefore abstract terms.

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But those terms only are called attributives which can never be used except as predicates.

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Logic, however, also recognises as attributives terms which signify the non-possession of attributes.

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It must be carefully noticed that attributives are not names of attributes, but names of the things which possess the attributes, in virtue of our knowledge that they possess them.

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Since every term must be either abstract or concrete, it may be asked -- Are attributives abstract or concrete?

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This function of attributives as names in a secondary sense is exactly expressed by the grammatical term 'noun adjective.'

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Although attributives cannot be used as subjects, there is nothing to prevent a subject-term from being used as a predicate, and so assuming for the time being the functions of an attributive.

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