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1908 Nov 12
Logic
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one with which the interpreter was already acquainted
by direct or indirect experience. The process of gaining this experience
is one of two, or is some mixture of these. The first of the two is that the Interpreter should first by his own personal
experience vecome sufficiently acquainted with that to which
the Proper Name applies, and subsequently with the Proper Name as
denominating that thing. The second of the two processes is
that by overhearing various assertions into which the
Proper Name enters, he should discover, first, that it is a
Proper Name, and then of what sort of object it is a name, and
finally that he should gain a greater or less mass of information about the
history of the single object, sufficient to make it stand out in his
indirect experience as contrasting with other things of the same sort.

... one with which the interpreter was already acquainted by direct or indirect experience. The process of gaining this experience is one of two, or is some mixture of these. The first of the two is that the Interpreter should first by his own personal experience vecome sufficiently acquainted with that to which the Proper Name applies, and subsequently with the Proper Name as denominating that thing. The second of the two processes is that by overhearing various assertions into which the Proper Name enters, he should discover, first, that it is a Proper Name, and then of what sort of object it is a name, and finally that he should gain a greater or less mass of information about the history of the single object, sufficient to make it stand out in his indirect experience as contrasting with other things of the same sort.