table,' 'this book,' we indicate the proximity to the speaker of the
object in question. Other designations have a higher degree of
intension, as when we say 'the present prime minister of England,'
'the honourable member who brought forward this motion to-night.'
Such terms have a good deal of significance in themselves, apart from
any knowledge we may happen to possess of the individuals they denote.

164. We have seen that, speaking quite strictly, there are no terms
which are non-connotative: but, for practical purposes, we may apply
the expression to proper names, on the ground that they possess no
intension, and to singular abstract terms on the ground that their
extension and intension coincide. In the latter case it is indifferent
whether we call the quantity extension or intension. Only we cannot
call it 'connotation,' because that implies two quantities distinct
from one another. A term must already denote a subject before it can
be said to connote its attributes.

165. The division of terms into connotative and non-connotative is
based on their possession of one quantity or two.




CHAPTER IV.

_Of the Law of Inverse Variation of Extension and Intension._


166. In a series of terms which fall under one another, as the
extension decreases, the intension increases, and vice versa. Take for