Concept
Noun
Overview
word that functions as the name of a specific object or set of objects
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Nor do I know whether he that says SOCRATES or he that says THIS ONE does more by name declare the person. The thing we call a participle, being a mixture of a verb and noun is nothing of itself, as are not the common names of male and female qualities (i.e, adjectives), but in construction it is put with others, in regard of tenses belonging to verbs, in regard of cases to nouns. Logicians call them [Greek…
Plutarch, Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3
Names Noun several times; states what Noun is.
A Noun is a composite significant sound, not marking time, of which no part is in itself significant: for in double or compound words we do not employ the separate parts as if each were in itself significant. Thus in Theodorus, 'god-given,' the {delta omega rho omicron nu} or 'gift' is not in itself significant.
Aristotle, The Poetics of Aristotle
Names Noun several times; states what Noun is.
If we strike out from our sentences everything but nouns and verbs, we shall perceive how extremely vague is the expression of ideas in undeveloped tongues. When we note how each inflection of a verb or addition by which the case of a noun is marked, serves to limit the conditions of action or of existence, we see that these constituents of speech enable men more precisely to communicate their thoughts. That the…
Herbert Spencer, First Principles
States what Noun is; names Noun several times.
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