 | John Durham Peters - 1999 - 308 pages
...(as for Wittgenstein's version of Augustine), but from their reference to ideas in minds. "Words in their primary or immediate Signification, stand for...nothing, but the Ideas in the Mind of him that uses them" (Essay, 3.2.2). Language is not an art of seduction (as for Rousseau), the way we articulate our being... | |
 | Frederick Copleston - 1999 - 452 pages
...The third book treats of words. It is closely connected with the preceding book, because 'words in their primary or immediate signification stand for...nothing but the ideas in the mind of him that uses them'.3 Ideas represent things, and words stand for ideas. The second and third points in Locke's method... | |
 | A. Denkel - 1999 - 272 pages
...tlrn point in Chapter 6. that are to be conveyed to others and thus defeats the purpose: "Words, in their primary or immediate signification, stand for...nothing but the ideas in the mind of him that uses them".100 Whatever the thought they communicate, meanings themselves must be accessible entities. What... | |
 | Peter Schmitter - 1999 - 454 pages
...zweifelhaften Ruf eines Vertreters der Privatsprachen-Semantik eingebracht hat: "Words in their primary and immediate signification, stand for nothing but the ideas in the mind of him that uses them" (L III.2.2). Aus dem Kontext herausgelöst, scheint diese Aussage Locke zu den folgenden Positionen... | |
 | Bernhard Siegert - 1999 - 348 pages
...what it pretends to be. But what does it matter? Indeed, one must not believe what the plumbers say: "When a man speaks to another, it is that he may be understood."9 Those who question the Powers that Be and the media that have implanted a need such as... | |
 | T. J. Hochstrasser - 2000 - 270 pages
...made arbitrarily the Mark of such an Idea . . . Words in their primary or 1mmed1ate S1gn1fication, stand for nothing but the Ideas in the Mind of him...carelessly those Ideas are collected from the Things that they are supposed to represent.62 CULTURA ANIMI AND COMPACTS IN PUFENDORF Before we can examine... | |
 | John Earl Joseph - 2000 - 246 pages
...enter, like the complex ideas themselves, into the realm of the voluntary and the arbitrary. Words in their primary or immediate Signification, stand for...nothing, but the Ideas in the Mind of him that uses them [...]. (Essay, III.ii.2) Again like Descartes, Locke believes strongly in free will. Their views part... | |
 | David Crystal, Hilary Crystal - 2000 - 604 pages
...only take the hint. Art Linkletter, 1965, A Child's Garden of Misinformation, Ch. 3 2:75 Words, in their primary or immediate signification, stand for nothing but the ideas in the mind of him who uses them, John Locke, 1690, 'Of Words or Language in General', in An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding,... | |
 | Russell Friedman, L.O. Nielsen - 2003 - 364 pages
...Elenchorum, 7.3.2 (1994, 30). 27 See Essay III, 2, 2 (Locke 1979, 405.21-22, 27-29): "(...) Words in their primary or immediate Signification, stand for...nothing, but the Ideas in the Mind of him that uses them (...) That then which Words are the Marks of, are the Ideas of the Speaker: Nor can any one apply them,... | |
 | Marcelo Dascal - 2003 - 744 pages
...together" suggestion, if set apart from the rest, could even be favoured by Heideggerians. 9. "Words, in their primary or immediate signification, stand for...but the ideas in the mind of him that uses them..." (Essay, Book 3, Chapter 2, Paragraph 2; emphasis in the original). 10. Alternatively, for those unhappy... | |
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Words in their primary or immediate signification, stand for nothing but the ideas in the mind of him that uses them, how imperfectly soever, or carelessly, those ideas are collected from the things which u2 they are supposed to represent. 
