Sec 1- Words are sensible signs necessary for communication
Sec 2- Words and sensible signs of his ideas who uses them:
...A man cannot make his words the the signs of either qualities in
things, or of conception's in the mind of another, whereof he has
none of his own. Until he has ideas of his own, he cannot suppose
them to correspond with the conceptions of another man; nor can
he use any signs for them; for thus they would be the signs of he
knows not what, which is, in truth, to be the signs of nothing. But
when he represents to himself other men's ideas by some of his own,
if he consent to give them the same names that other men do, it is
still to his own ideas; to ideas that he has, and not to ideas he has
not.
Sec 4- Words often secretly referred, first, to the ideas in other men's minds
Sec 6- Words by use readily excite ideas
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