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Of Words or Language in General An essay concerning human understanding |  |
2. To use these sounds as signs of ideas.
Besides articulate sounds, therefore, it was further necessary that he should be able to use these sounds as signs of internal 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.
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Of Words or Language in General An essay concerning human understanding | |