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Ideas for 'Positivism and Realism', 'New work for a theory of universals' and 'Essay Conc Human Understanding (2nd Ed)'

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6 ideas

19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 2. Meaning as Mental

7716	Words were devised as signs for inner ideas, and their basic meaning is those ideas [Locke]

7308	Words stand for the ideas in the mind of him that uses them [Locke]

19. Language / B. Reference / 3. Direct Reference / c. Social reference

12524

For the correct reference of complex ideas, we can only refer to experts [Locke]

19. Language / F. Communication / 4. Private Language

15991

Since words are just conventional, we can represent our own ideas with any words we please [Locke]

19. Language / F. Communication / 6. Interpreting Language / c. Principle of charity

8614	A sophisticated principle of charity sometimes imputes error as well as truth [Lewis]

8615	We need natural properties in order to motivate the principle of charity [Lewis]