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'works', 'Ontological Ground of Alethic Modality' and 'Essay Conc Human Understanding (2nd Ed)'
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19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 2. Meaning as Mental
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Words were devised as signs for inner ideas, and their basic meaning is those ideas [Locke]
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Words stand for the ideas in the mind of him that uses them [Locke]
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19. Language / B. Reference / 3. Direct Reference / c. Social reference
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For the correct reference of complex ideas, we can only refer to experts [Locke]
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19. Language / F. Communication / 1. Rhetoric
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Plato's whole philosophy may be based on being duped by reification - a figure of speech [Benardete,JA on Plato]
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19. Language / F. Communication / 4. Private Language
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Since words are just conventional, we can represent our own ideas with any words we please [Locke]
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