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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: EIIEA IITEPOENTA, CHAPTER II. SOME CONSIDERATION OF MR. LOCKE'S ESS AT. 1 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 Signification 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 first 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 Mrv Locke did not intend or consider it as such: for he says, ? When I first began this discourse of the Understanding, and a good while after, I had not the least thought that any consideration of words was at all necessary to it . True. And it is very strange he should so have imagined f. But what immediately follows But when, Perhaps it was for mankind a lucky mistake (for it was a mistake) which Mr. Locke made when he called his book, An Essay on Human Understanding. For some part of the inestimable benefitof 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 B...
| ISBN-13 | 9781459044630 |
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| ISBN-10 | 1459044630 |
| Weight | 0.60 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.41 In |
| List Price | $19.94 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 178 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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