Universa Philosophia

Secondly I infer that no term is connotative unless it is adjective: because every name is either substantive, and thus an absolute term; or adjective, and thus a connotative term; but there is no other name. But P. Fonseca says, lib. 1. cap. 24, that these names Dominus, Pater and similar are connotative and not adjective, therefore connotative is not convertible with adjective, nor substantive with absolute. But P. Fonseca does not prove the antecedent proposition, nor can he: because it is false, for those terms are as absolute as materia, forma, relatio, cognitio. But if he assigns a distinction, likewise these Poëta, Pictor, Figulus, etc. And yet matter connotes form, form matter, relation foundation and term, cognition object, Poet songs, etc. Indeed homo connotes the suppositum. Those names adduced even by me are indeed connotative, but that is the genus of objective connotation, and of other things without which the connoting things cannot be perfectly known, as all relatives, even transcendental ones. Thus Dominus marks lordship, yet they do not connote other terms on which they depend in their signification. Review §.67.