9), and Hamilton's dictum 'that every concept is inadequate to to the individual,' are justified.
General names, when used as proper names, lose their connotation, as Euxine or Newfoundland.
Singular terms, other than Proper, have connotation; either in themselves, like the singular pronouns 'he,' 'she,' 'it,' which are general in their applicability, though singular in application; or, derivatively, from the general names that combine to form them, as in 'the first Emperor of the French' or the 'Capital of the British Empire.' Sec.3.Whether Abstract Terms have any connotation is another disputed question.

We have seen that they denote a quality or qualities of something, and that is precisely what general terms connote: 'honesty' denotes a quality of some men; 'honest' connotes the same quality, whilst denoting the men who have it.
The denotation of abstract terms thus seems to exhaust their force or meaning.

It has been proposed, however, to regard them as connoting the qualities they directly stand for, and not denoting anything; but surely this is too violent.

To denote something is the same as to be the name of something (whether real or unreal), which every term must be.

It is a better proposal to regard their denotation and connotation as coinciding; though open to the objection that 'connote' means 'to mark along with' something else, and this plan leaves nothing else.