ABSTRACT
The former are the terms indicated by proper names, the latter those indicated by all other words. Of the parts of speech, three are specially important: substantives, adjectives, and verbs. Among substantives, some are derived from adjectives or verbs, as humanity from human, or sequence from follows. Adjectives and verbs are capable of occurring in propositions in which they cannot be regarded as subject, but only as parts of the assertion. Term is, therefore, a useful word, since it marks dissent from various philosophies, as well as because, in many statements, we wish to speak of any term or some term. The twofold nature of the verb, as actual verb and as verbal noun, may be expressed, if all verbs are held to be relations, as the difference between a relation in itself and a relation actually relating.
