2. Ideas and words may be said to be true, inasmuch as they really are ideas and words.
Indeed both ideas and
words may be said to be true, in a metaphysical sense of the word truth; as all other things that any way exist are
said to be true, i.e., really to be such as they exist. Though in things called true, even in that sense, there is perhaps
a secret reference to our ideas, looked upon as the standards of that truth; which amounts to a mental proposition,
though it be usually not taken notice of.
