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... functions of language . We have seen that he regards the task he sets him- self in the Essay as being a part of the ... function consists . All we have to go on is the fact that he believes both that ideas are signs of things and their ...
... functions of language . We have seen that he regards the task he sets him- self in the Essay as being a part of the ... function consists . All we have to go on is the fact that he believes both that ideas are signs of things and their ...
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... function . But Locke says no more about this function than that abstract ideas ' become general representa- tives of all of the same kind ' , 2 and that ' for the signification they have is nothing but a relation that , by the mind of ...
... function . But Locke says no more about this function than that abstract ideas ' become general representa- tives of all of the same kind ' , 2 and that ' for the signification they have is nothing but a relation that , by the mind of ...
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... function of any ' faculty ' . Intuitive induction is , of course , a special case of abstrac- tion . Its specific difference is that the universal arrived at by intuitive induction is a principle or ' maxim ' and not a concept or ...
... function of any ' faculty ' . Intuitive induction is , of course , a special case of abstrac- tion . Its specific difference is that the universal arrived at by intuitive induction is a principle or ' maxim ' and not a concept or ...
Contents
Introduction | 8 |
The Aim and Method of Lockes Theory | 23 |
Ideas and Experience | 41 |
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