The linguistic world of that time never met a general noun it didn't like, and is there a word that appears more often than the now-vanished "presently"?
For example, names like Big River, Red River, Stony Brook, and Cedar Hill may have their origin in a specific use of a general noun.
By introducing a second mental universal existing obiective in the mind, Burley hopes to account for the fact that we can grasp the meaning of a general noun even though we have not experienced any of its supposits, and thus without properly knowing the universal it directly signifies.
Baal, much like Lord, was not merely a general noun.
It is in this tradition that the term proper noun, or proper name, is used for a name, and noun, general noun, or common noun is used for an appellative.
The text leaves it unclear whether it is referring to predication in general, noun predication, or merely introducing a new name for something, since other passages indicate that 'dog' and 'hound' were considered coextensive.
Now, if 'being' is the most general noun, there is no noun which refers to being and non-being.
For instance, in Japanese, the general noun classifier for humans is nin, and it is used for counting humans, whatever they are called: :san-nin no gakusei lit.
This gets to a larger issue in the language, and to the case of "proprietary eponyms," words that move from corporate brands to general nouns (and even verbs) thanks to their ubiquity.
Ancient philosophers and rhetoricians viewed metaphor as a temporary self-explanatory change in the usage of a general or singular term, typically a noun or noun phrase.
The plural noun onomata (singular onoma), translated 'names', in fact varies between being (a) a general term for 'words', (b) more narrowly, nouns, or perhaps nouns and adjectives, and (c) in certain contexts, proper names alone.
