Locke-ing onto content

In D. Walsh (ed.), Evolution, Naturalism and Mind. Cambridge University Press. pp. 127-143 (2001)
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Our reading is a passage from John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding , Book III, Chapter II, § 2. When a man speaks to another, it is that he may be understood; and the end of speech is that those sounds, as marks, may make known his ideas to the hearer. … Words being voluntary signs, they cannot be voluntary signs imposed by him on things he knows not. That would be to make them signs of nothing, sounds without signification

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original Jackson, Frank (2001) "Locke-ing onto Content". Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement 49():127-143

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