Note 47 — Chapter II
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A proper name may have suggestive force even for those who are not actually acquainted with the person or thing denoted by it. Thus William Stanley Jevons may suggest any or all of the following to one who never heard the name before: an organised being, a human being, a male, an Anglo-Saxon, having some relative named Stanley, having parents named Jevons. But at the same time, the name cannot be said necessarily to signify any of these things, in the sense that if they were wanting it would be misapplied. Consider, for example, such a name as Victoria Nyanza. Some further remarks bearing on this point will be found later on in this section.