attributives

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

The First Five Pages Noah Lukeman 2000

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

The First Five Pages Noah Lukeman 2000

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

The First Five Pages Noah Lukeman 2000

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

Deductive Logic St. George William Joseph Stock

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

Deductive Logic St. George William Joseph Stock

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

Deductive Logic St. George William Joseph Stock

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.

Deductive Logic St. George William Joseph Stock

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

Deductive Logic St. George William Joseph Stock

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

Deductive Logic St. George William Joseph Stock

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.

Deductive Logic St. George William Joseph Stock