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... sounds . 2. To make them signs of ideas . 3 , 4. To make general signs . 5. Words ultimately derived from such as signify sensible ideas . 6. Distribution . SECT . CHAPTER II . OF THE SIGNIFICATION OF WORDS . 1. Words are sensible signs ...
... sounds . 2. To make them signs of ideas . 3 , 4. To make general signs . 5. Words ultimately derived from such as signify sensible ideas . 6. Distribution . SECT . CHAPTER II . OF THE SIGNIFICATION OF WORDS . 1. Words are sensible signs ...
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... sound of the letters . 12. This art has perplexed religion and justice . 13. And ought not to pass for learning . 14. Fourthly , taking them for things . 15. Instance in matter . 16. This makes errors lasting . 17. Fifthly , setting ...
... sound of the letters . 12. This art has perplexed religion and justice . 13. And ought not to pass for learning . 14. Fourthly , taking them for things . 15. Instance in matter . 16. This makes errors lasting . 17. Fifthly , setting ...
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... sounds ; which are therefore of most general use , as being the best and quickest we are capable of . But of immediate communication , having no experiment in ourselves , and consequently no notion of it at all , we have no idea how ...
... sounds ; which are therefore of most general use , as being the best and quickest we are capable of . But of immediate communication , having no experiment in ourselves , and consequently no notion of it at all , we have no idea how ...
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... sounds , must signify some idea , which is either in the thing to which the name is applied ; -and then it is positive , and is looked on as united to , and existing in the thing to which the denomination is given ; -or else it * arises ...
... sounds , must signify some idea , which is either in the thing to which the name is applied ; -and then it is positive , and is looked on as united to , and existing in the thing to which the denomination is given ; -or else it * arises ...
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... sound man in our mouths is the sign , is nothing else but of an animal of such a certain form : since I think I may be confident , that whoever should see a creature of his own shape and make , though it had no more reason all its life ...
... sound man in our mouths is the sign , is nothing else but of an animal of such a certain form : since I think I may be confident , that whoever should see a creature of his own shape and make , though it had no more reason all its life ...
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Page 78 - Thou fool, that which thou sowest is not quickened, except it die. And that which thou sowest, thou sowest not that body that shall be, but bare grain ; it may chance of wheat, or of some other grain. But God giveth it a body as it hath pleased him ; and to every seed his own body.
Page 299 - For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts ; even one thing befalleth them : as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath ; so that a man hath no pre-eminence above a beast : for all is vanity. All go unto one place ; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.
Page 351 - It is evident the mind knows not things immediately, but only by the intervention of the ideas it has of them. Our knowledge therefore is real, only so far as there is a conformity between our ideas and the reality of things.
Page 74 - For we must all appear before the judgment-seat of Christ ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad.
Page 55 - I think, is a thinking intelligent being, that has reason and reflection, and can consider itself as itself, the same thinking thing, in different times and places...
Page 158 - Conceptions; and to make them stand as marks for the Ideas within his own Mind, whereby they might be made known to others, and the Thoughts of Men's Minds be conveyed from one to another.
Page 159 - It may also lead us a little towards the original of all our notions and knowledge, if we remark how great a dependence our words have on common sensible ideas; and how those which are made use of to stand for actions and notions quite removed from sense, have their rise from thence, and from obvious sensible ideas are transferred to more abstruse significations, and made to stand for ideas that come not under the cognizance of our senses...
Page 1 - The mind being, as I have declared, furnished with a great number of the simple ideas, conveyed in by the senses as they are found in exterior things, or by reflection on its own operations, takes notice also that a certain number of these simple ideas go constantly together...
Page 323 - Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament ; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.
Page 49 - FROM what has been said, it is easy to discover what is so much inquired after, the principium individuationis ; and that, it is plain, is existence itself, which determines a being of any sort to a particular time and place incommunicable to two beings of the same kind.