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1908 Nov 13
Logic
37

You. Oh. I have not been in the habit of thinking of
characters as real things or as anything more than oblique
cases of nouns.

I. But don't you reckon Priam, Cadmus, Mars, Caliban, and
Titiana among Proper Names? They denote, not single existents if
any it is True, but single Ideas. Now Ideas are objects none the less
that some of them are not Real. I capitalize the term 'Proper Name'
to show that I take it in a definite sense herein explained, and I
define it as a term noun denoting anything regarded as single. In my
sense, therefore, a fictitious object if regarded as single, must must be denoted,
if at all, by a Proper Name.

You. Well, it does not seem worth while to contest that point,
since you might say that the assertion was is equivalent to "Whatever

1908 Nov 13
Logic
37

You. Oh. I have not been in the habit of thinking of
characters as real things or as anything more than oblique
cases of nouns.

I. But don't you reckon Priam, Cadmus, Mars, Caliban, and
Titiana among Proper Names? They denote, not single existents
it is True, but single Ideas. Now Ideas are objects none the less
that some of them are not Real. I capitalize the term 'Proper Name'
to show that I take it in a definite sense herein explained, and I
define it as a noun denoting anything regarded as single. In my
sense, therefore, a fictitious object if regarded as single, must be denoted,
if at all, by a Proper Name.

You. Well, it does not seem worth while to contest that point,
since you might say that the assertion is equivalent to "Whatever