_Connotative and Non-Connotative Terms._


147. Before explaining this division, it is necessary to treat of
what is called the Quantity of Terms.



_Quantity of Terms._


148. A term is possessed of quantity in two ways--

(1) In Extension;

(2) In Intension.

149. The Extension of a term is the number of things to which it
applies.

150. The Intension of a term is the number of attributes which it
implies.

151. It will simplify matters to bear in mind that the intension of
a term is the same thing as its meaning. To take an example, the term
'man' applies to certain things, namely, all the members of the human
race that have been, are, or ever will be: this is its quantity in