J. S. Mill’s mark

*Notare, to mark; connotare, to mark along with: to mark one thing with or in addition to another. A footnote found in John Stuart Mill’s System of Logic: Ratiocinative and Inductive (1843): Book I, Chapter II, Of Names. Having languished since the Middle Ages, Mill reintroduced logic into Victorian public discourse. Here he resurrects a term of the medieval schoolmen: connotate. He […]