In the mind of every human being there are innumerable ideas, or mental pictures, gathered from previous experience. Whenever we perceive a relation between any two of these ideas, we form a judgment, or, in other words, have a thought. If we wish to communicate our thought we ordinarily express it in words, and this verbal expression of a thought we call a sentence. For example, I have an idea of _children_ and an idea of the activity called _play_; I see a relation between them, that of agent and thing done; I affirm this relation, and have the sentence, _Children play_. Or I detect a relation between _flower_ and _whiteness_, and say, _The flower is white_. Or I fail to establish such a …
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