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If you bear in mind these characteristics of
proper names, you will perceive that when lawyers
and others use the letters A, B, C as a sort of improved
relative pronouns, saying for example that if A owes
B money and C owes A money, then B may
“trustee” C for the debt (as you say in Massachusetts)
these letters differ from new proper names only in
the accidental circumstance that they are first introduced in the antecedent of
a conditional proposition while proper names are first
introduced in positive assertions. I call such improvised
proper names selectives.

There is nothing in the world to prevent our
using the capital letters as such individual
names, provided we distinguish the first
replica by scribing it heavily or otherwise. I cannot
say that this is a bad way; it serves the purpose of putting out of view confusing [trifles?].
But I do say that
it is inferior requires rather complicated rules,
and from every other point of view except that of putting unimportant circumstances [out of view and convenience in printing?,]
is usually inferior to
another way of accomplishing fulfilling the same
purpose, which I proceed to describe.

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If you bear in mind these characteristics of
proper names, you will perceive that when lawyers
and others use the letters A, B, C as a sort of improved
relative pronouns, saying for example that if A owes
B money and C owes A money, then B may
“trustee” C for the debt (as you say in Massachusetts)
these letters differ from new proper names only in
the accidental circumstance that they are first introduced in the antecedent of
a conditional proposition while proper names are first
introduced in positive assertions. I call such improvised
proper names selectives.

There is nothing to prevent our
using the capital letters as such individual
names, provided we distinguish the first
replica by scribing it heavily or otherwise. I cannot
say that this is a bad way; it serves the purpose of putting out of view confusing [trifles?].
But I do say that it
requires rather complicated rules,
and from every other point of view except that of putting unimportant circumstances [????? printing?,] is usually inferior to
another way of fulfilling the same
purpose, which I proceed to describe.