Sib LOGIC: OR, THE RIGHT ESE OF REASON. lowing Emperors. And Tea, which was the proper naine of one sort of Indi qn leaf, is now -a -days, become a common name for many infusions of herbs, or plants, in water as sage -tea, alelwof -tea, lemon-tea, &c. so Peter, Thomas, John, William, may be reckoned common names also, because they are given to many persons, unless they are determined to signify a single per_ eon at any particular time or place. Note in the second place, that a common name may become proper by custom, or by the time, or place, or persons that uee it; as in Great Britain when we say the King, we mean our present rightful sovereign King GEORGE, who now reigns; when we speak of the Prince, we intend his Royal Highness GEORGE, Prince of Wales ; if we mention the city, when we are near London, we generally mean the city of London ; when in a country town, we say the parson, or the esquire, all the parish knows who are the single persons intended by it : so when we are speaking of the history of the New Testament, and use the words Peter, Paul, Joltn, we mean those, three apostles. Note, in the third place, that any common name whatso- ever is made proper, by terms of particularity added to it, as the common words pope, king, horse, garden, book, knife, &c. are designed to signify a singular idea, when we say the present pope ; the king of Great Britain ; the horse that won the last plate at Newmarket ; the royal garden at Kensington ; this book ; that knife, &c. SECT. V.Of concrete and abstract Terms. IV. Words or terms are divided into abstract and concrete. Abstract terms signify the mode or quality of a being, without any regard to the subject in which it iss as whiteness, roundness, length, breadth, wisdom, mortality, life, death. Concrete terms, while they express the quality, do also either express or imply, or refer to some subject to which it be- longs : as white, round, long, broad, wise, mortal, living, dead. But these are not always noun adjectives in a grammatical sense, for a fool, a knave, a philosopher, and many other concretes are substantives, as well as knavery, folly, and philosophy, which are the abstract terms that belong to them. SECT. VI. --Of univocal and equivocal Words. V. Words and terms are either univocal or equivocal. Univocal words are such as signify but one idea, or at least but Ope sort Of thing ; equivocal words are such as signify two or more different ideas, or different sorts of objects. The words book, bible, fish, house, elephant, may be called univocal words ; for I know not that they signify any thing else hut those ideas to which they are generally affixed; but (read is an equivocal word,
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