Therefore proper names have no assignable connotation.

The only escape from this reasoning lies in falling back upon time and place, the principles of individuation, as constituting the connotation of proper names.

Two things cannot be at the same time in the same place: hence 'the man who was at a certain spot on the bridge of Lodi at a certain instant in a certain year' suffices to identify Napoleon Buonaparte for that instant.
Supposing no one else to have borne the name, then, is this its connotation?
No one has ever thought so.

And, at any rate, time and place are only extrinsic determinations (suitable indeed to events like the battle of Lodi, or to places themselves like London); whereas the connotation of a general term, such as 'sheep,' consists of intrinsic qualities.

Hence, then, the scholastic doctrine 'that individuals have no essence' (see chap.xxii.Sec.