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1908 Nov 7
Logic 14

is a Sign to me of its being a proper name; and more likely
than not something in the sign or its context will show whether it is a name of a person, a geographical feature,
a star, an abstract quality or form, a general habit of a universe,
or whatever other general kind might be called by a proper name.
In addition, there will be something in the mention of it that
furnishes me with more specific knowledge about the object,
until I am quite familiar with it. Then Subsequently, perhaps, the object of the name
may itself be presented to my vision, which and this will considerably
increase my acquaintance with it, just as I vividly remember,
for example, how, thirty years ago, I first saw Etna, of which I had read so
much in the classics and in modern books. I was on ship-board, and it stood up very impressively above the line
of the sea-horizon, an obtuse isoceles triangle. I then was first directly aware of it. Subsequently, I saw it so often from many points of
view, and trod upon it and learned to distinguish the lava of many

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