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Ideas for 'works', 'The Strangest Man' and 'De Corpore (Elements, First Section)'

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18. Thought / B. Mechanics of Thought / 5. Mental Files

17236	Words are not for communication, but as marks for remembering what we have learned [Hobbes]
	Full Idea: The use of words consists in this, that they may serve for marks by which whatsoever we have found out may be recalled to memory ...but not as signs by which we declare the same to others.
	From: Thomas Hobbes (De Corpore (Elements, First Section) [1655], 1.6.11)
	A reaction: This exactly fits the idea of mental files, of which I am a fan. That this is the actual purpose of language is an unusual but interesting view.