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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAP. II. SOME CONSIDERATION OF MR. LOCKE'S ESSAY. I CANNOT recollect one word of Mr. Locke's that corresponds at all with any thing that you have said. The third book of his essay is indeed expressly written On the nature, use and significa- tion of language. But there is nothing in it concerning abbreviations. I consider the whole of Mr. Locke's essay as a philosophical account of the Jirst sort of abbreviations in language. Whatever you may think of it, it is certain, not only from the title, but from his own declaration, that Mr. Locke did not intend or consider it as such: for he says, When I first began this dis- course of the understanding, and a good while after, I had not the least thought that any con- sideration of words was at all necessary to it.) (m) Perhaps it was for mankind a lucky mistake (for it was K mistake) which Mr. Locke made when he called his book; An True: and .it is very strange he should so have imagined.(n) But what immediately follows Essay on Human Understanding. For some part of the inestimable benefit of that book has, merely on account of its title, reached to many thousands more than, I fear, it would have done, had he called it (what it is merely) A Grammatical Essay, or a Treatise on Words, or on Language. The human mind, or the human understanding, appears to be a grand and noble theme; and all men, even the most insufficient, conceive that to be a proper object for their contemplation: whilst inquiries into the nature of language (through which alone they can obtain any knowledge beyond the beasts) are fallen into such extreme disrepute and contempt, that even those who neither have the accent of Christian, pagan, or man, nor can speak so many words together with as much propriety as Balaam's ass ...
| ISBN-13 | 9781458827159 |
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| ISBN-10 | 1458827151 |
| Weight | 0.68 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.47 In |
| List Price | $19.84 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 206 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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