...as usual, established the common British view. He held that God furnished man with language in order "to use these sounds as signs of internal conceptions;...thoughts of men's minds be conveyed from one to another." Although thought used language, according to Locke, "thought is not constituted by, nor identical with...

...make them signs of ideas.— Besides articulate sounds, therefore, it was farther necessary that he should be able to use these sounds as signs of internal conceptions, and to make indetermined ideas, which they are made to stand for". So bereits die Logik von Port-Royal: A. ARNAULD/...

...make them signs of ideas. — Besides articulate sounds, therefore, it was farther necessary that he should be able to use these sounds as signs of internal...thoughts of men's minds be conveyed from one to another. (III. 1.1-2) The problem is simple: if language, as "the common tie of society," indeed facilitates...

...articulate sounds, therefore, it was further necessary that he should be able to use these sounds .is signs of internal conceptions; and to make them stand...the thoughts of men's minds be conveyed from one to another.1 Natural languages are public and conventional systems of signs that are necessary for communication,...

...ingredient is that a human being is "able to use these Sounds, as Signs of internal Conceptions," that is, "to make them stand as marks for the Ideas within his own Mind" (E III.i.2: 402). Locke is interested in what it is for human beings to "use the Words they speak (with...