10. Terms leading the mind beyond the subject denominated, are relative.
Fourthly, That relation being the
considering of one thing with another which is extrinsical to it, it is evident that all words that necessarily lead the
mind to any other ideas than are supposed really to exist in that thing to which the words are applied are relative
words: v.g. a man, black, merry, thoughtful, thirsty, angry, extended; these and the like are all absolute, because
they neither signify nor intimate anything but what does or is supposed really to exist in the man thus
denominated; but father, brother, king, husband, blacker, merrier, etc., are words which, together with the thing
they denominate, imply also something else separate and exterior to the existence of that thing.
