 | Dorothy L. Cheney, Robert M. Seyfarth - Nature - 1990 - 396 pages
...from each of these perspectives. For some, like the philosopher John Locke (1690/1964:259), signals "stand for nothing but the ideas in the mind of him that uses them." If Locke ever wondered about the vocalizations of monkeys, he might well have concluded that their... | |
 | Winfried Noth - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1990 - 600 pages
...considers, should be present to it: and these are ideas" (Locke 1690: IV.21.4). (II) "Words [ . . . j 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" (Locke 1690: III. 2.... | |
 | Margret A. Winzer - Education - 1993 - 482 pages
...their meaning from a culture that accepts certain relationships and certain designations: "words in their primary or immediate signification stand for...nothing but the ideas in the mind of him that uses them" (Locke, [1690] 1894, p. 9). Basing their own work on Locke, the French philosophes used accounts of... | |
 | Stuart Curran - Literary Criticism - 1993 - 330 pages
...originating in a social impulse, language for Locke has an irreducibly subjective aspect: " Words in their primary or immediate signification, stand for...nothing, but the Ideas in the Mind of him that uses them" (1n.ii.2). Given a claim such as this we can understand why Stephen Land designates the theory of language... | |
 | Douglas M. Jesseph - Mathematics - 1993 - 335 pages
...semantic theories which hold that the meaning of a term is an idea. Thus, Locke's thesis that "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) leads him to postulate abstract ideas as the referents of general terms, since the... | |
 | R. D. Rollinger - Abstraction - 1993 - 214 pages
...Book ID of An Essay concerning Human Understanding. In this part of the Essay he maintains: "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). The term "idea" is of course used throughout this work and is explicitly defined... | |
 | Vere Claiborne Chappell - Philosophy - 1994 - 354 pages
...this twofold claim about the purpose of the use of names, Locke then drew the inference that "Words in their primary or immediate Signification, stand for...nothing, but the Ideas in the Mind of him that uses them" (ibid.). Apparently his inference is that if words are to be used either to record and remind us of... | |
 | Bimal K. Matilal, A. Chakrabarti - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1994 - 404 pages
...pp. 4-5.) And Locke matches up his extreme epistemic individualism by the notorious thesis: Words in their primary or immediate signification stand for...nothing but the Ideas in the Mind of Him that uses them. (Essay, Book III, Ch. 2, 2) Although he thus eliminates the possibility of a knowledgeable reporter's... | |
 | Ursula Brausse - Context (Linguistics) - 1994 - 180 pages
...die Funktion der Wörter in der Sprache: „Words in their primary or immediate signification signify nothing but the ideas in the mind of him that uses them". Kretzmann (1976, S. 334) macht aber darauf aufmerksam, daß Locke diese seine Hauptthese zur Wortbedeutung... | |
 | Gregory McCulloch - Education - 1995 - 244 pages
...can utter words. A further condition is that words should be used to signify ideas. More, words, in their primary or immediate signification, stand for...nothing but the ideas in the mind of him that uses them. (E:III,ii,2) Ideas are fundamental, but since a person's ideas are 'within his own breast, invisible... | |
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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. 
