Understanding Sentences: Port-Royal, Locke, and Berkeley
According to the Port-Royal Logic, "words are distinct and articulated sounds that people have made into signs to indicate what takes place in the mind" (Buroker 74). Similarly, according to Locke, the use of language requires that one ``be able to use [articulate] 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" (EHU 3.1.2). Passages like these support Berkeley's interpretation of his predecessors as holding that, in the proper...
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Antoine Arnauld
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Contemporary Thinkers
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George Berkeley
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Historical Thinkers
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Jennifer Smalligan Marušić
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John Locke
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Mental Representation
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Metaphysics
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Philosophy
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Philosophy of Language
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Philosophy of Mind
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The Way of Ideas
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