Book, Chapter

  1   1, arg|         attend both to things and to signs, as it is necessary to know
  2   1, arg|       Christian people, and also the signs of these things, that is,
  3   1,   2|         either about things or about signs; but things are learnt by
  4   1,   2|        things are learnt by means of signs. I now use the word "thing"
  5   1,   2|            they are things, are also signs of other things. There are
  6   1,   2|              other things. There are signs of another kind, those which
  7   1,   2|             never employed except as signs: for example, words. No
  8   1,   2|             one uses words except as signs of something else; and hence
  9   1,   2|            be understood what I call signs: those things, to wit, which
 10   1,   2|       distinction between things and signs, I shall, when I speak of
 11   1,   2|          some of them may be used as signs also, that will not interfere
 12   1,   2|             discuss things first and signs afterwards. But we must
 13   1,   2|           what other things they are signs of. ~
 14   1,  40|             me light, the subject of signs. ~
 15   2, arg|            to discuss the subject of signs. He first defines what a
 16   2, arg|             there are two classes of signs, the natural and the conventional.
 17   2, arg|        conventional. Of conventional signs (which are the only class
 18   2, arg|       sources, unknown and ambiguous signs. The present book deals
 19   2, arg|              deals only with unknown signs, the ambiguities of language
 20   2, arg|            arising from ignorance of signs is to be removed by learning
 21   2, arg|            removing our ignorance of signs, whether these be direct
 22   2,   1|                             chap. 1. Signs, their nature and variety~
 23   2,   1|     themselves, even though they are signs of something else, so now,
 24   2,   1|            to discuss the subject of signs, I lay down this direction,
 25   2,   1|            to the fact that they are signs, that is, to what they signify.
 26   2,   1|                             Now some signs are natural, others conventional.
 27   2,   1|         others conventional. Natural signs are those which, apart from
 28   2,   1|              desire of using them as signs, do yet lead to the knowledge
 29   2,   1|             belongs to this class of signs. And the countenance of
 30   2,   1|              it known. This class of signs however, it is no part of
 31   2,   2|              chap. 2. Of the kind of signs we are now concerned with~
 32   2,   2|                         Conventional signs, on the other hand, are
 33   2,   2|            and discuss this class of signs so far as men are concerned
 34   2,   2|            with it, because even the signs which have been given us
 35   2,   2|            beasts, too, have certain signs among themselves by which
 36   2,   2|             by her in turn; and many signs of the same kind are matters
 37   2,   2|       observation. Now whether these signs, like the expression or
 38   2,   3|                       chap. 3. Among signs, words hold the chief place~
 39   2,   3|                               Of the signs, then, by which men communicate
 40   2,   3|             their limbs give certain signs to the initiated, and, so
 41   2,   3|            commanders. And all these signs are as it were a kind of
 42   2,   3|           kind of visible words. The signs that address themselves
 43   2,   3|     significant sound, yet all these signs are very few in number compared
 44   2,   3|           countless multitude of the signs through which men express
 45   2,   3|             put into words all those signs, the various classes of
 46   2,   3|              words in terms of those signs. ~
 47   2,   4|              means of letters formed signs of words. Thus the sounds
 48   2,   4|              but by means of certain signs. It has been found impossible,
 49   2,   4|               however, to make those signs common to all nations owing
 50   2,  10|             10. Unknown or ambiguous signs prevent Scripture from being
 51   2,  10|          unknown, or under ambiguous signs. Signs are either proper
 52   2,  10|            or under ambiguous signs. Signs are either proper or figurative.
 53   2,  10|         tongue call it by this name. Signs are figurative when the
 54   2,  11|     necessary to remove ignorance of signs~
 55   2,  11|              for ignorance of proper signs is knowledge of languages.
 56   2,  13|              in things when even the signs of those things are kept
 57   2,  13|          edification, but in that of signs, by which it is hard not
 58   2,  14|                      About ambiguous signs, however, I shall speak
 59   2,  14|       treating at present of unknown signs, of which, as far as the
 60   2,  16|            In the case of figurative signs, again, if ignorance of
 61   2,  20| consultations and arrangements about signs and leagues with devils,
 62   2,  20|             the body, but to certain signs hidden or manifest; and
 63   2,  22|              their origin in certain signs of things being arbitrarily
 64   2,  23|             in regard to all fancied signs which lead either to the
 65   2,  24|               Now, just as all these signs affect the mind according
 66   2,  24|           did not agree upon them as signs because they were already
 67   2,  24|             the same way also, those signs by which the ruinous intercourse
 68   2,  25|              necessity. For if those signs which the actors make in
 69   2,  25|          likeness in their choice of signs, that the signs may as far
 70   2,  25|            choice of signs, that the signs may as far as possible be
 71   2,  25|           another in many ways, such signs are not always of the same
 72   2,  25|           the countless varieties of signs without which human intercourse
 73   2,  29|          used conformably to certain signs as nostrums or the instruments
 74   2,  39|          leagues and covenants about signs, let these he utterly rejected
 75   2,  39|  ascertaining the meaning of unknown signs, the topic I am now discussing. ~
 76   2,  42|         pointed out, so that unknown signs have ceased to be a hindrance
 77   2,  42|              discussion of ambiguous signs in Scripture. And about
 78   3, arg|              of dealing with unknown signs, goes on in this third book
 79   3, arg|           book to treat of ambiguous signs. Such signs may be either
 80   3, arg|             of ambiguous signs. Such signs may be either direct or
 81   3, arg|    figurative. In the case of direct signs ambiguity may arise from
 82   3, arg|            In the case of figurative signs we need to guard against
 83   3,   1|              led astray by ambiguous signs, I so far as I can give
 84   3,   5|          slavery of the soul to take signs for things, and to be unable
 85   3,   6|           they paid attention to the signs of spiritual realities in
 86   3,   6|              not knowing to what the signs referred, still they had
 87   3,   6|            clung obstinately to such signs could not endure our Lord'
 88   3,   6|            people, clinging to these signs as it they were realities,
 89   3,   6|             by the schoolmaster that signs, which had been for a season
 90   3,   7|           that their idols were only signs, yet still they used them
 91   3,   7|        heathen either as gods, or as signs and representations of gods.
 92   3,   7|           much more so is it to take signs intended to represent useless
 93   3,   7|             things signified by such signs, and engage your mind in
 94   3,   8|              under bondage to useful signs, and who were (so to speak)
 95   3,   8|            it, and, interpreting the signs to which they were in bondage,
 96   3,   8|        realities of which these were signs. And out of such were formed
 97   3,   8|          found in bondage to useless signs, it not only freed from
 98   3,   8|           from their slavery to such signs, but brought to nothing
 99   3,   8|             out of the way all these signs themselves, so that the
100   3,   8|             now fall into bondage to signs of a useful kind, but rather
101   3,   9|              9. Who is in bondage to signs, and who not~
102   3,   9|           but that to which all such signs refer. Now such a man is
103   3,   9|         reveal to carnal minds those signs by subjection to which their
104   3,   9|              attending even to those signs which we now understand,
105   3,   9|              the letter, and to take signs for the things that are
106   3,   9|             bondage; so to interpret signs wrongly is the result of
107   3,   9|        bondage to unknown but useful signs than, by interpreting them
108   3,  29|            being "grammata") are the signs of sounds made by the articulate
109   3,  37|           wedded to piety. But about signs, so far as relates to words,