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  1      I,  I     |         all our ideas of colours, sounds, tastes, figure, &c., innate,
  2      I,  I     |         For words being but empty sounds, any further than they are
  3     II,  I     |         when the eye is but open; sounds and some tangible qualities
  4     II,  I     |           not very susceptible of sounds; and where there is little
  5     II,  II    |          true distinct notions of sounds.~3. Only the qualities that
  6     II,  II    |          taken notice of, besides sounds, tastes, smells, visible
  7     II,  III   |        eyes. All kinds of noises, sounds, and tones, only by the
  8     II,  III   |        may be said of colours and sounds. I shall, therefore, in
  9     II,  VIII  |     insensible parts, as colours, sounds, tastes, &c. These I call
 10     II,  VIII  |     understood also of tastes and sounds, and other the like sensible
 11     II,  VIII  |        colours, nor the ears hear sounds; let the palate not taste,
 12     II,  VIII  |      colours, tastes, odours, and sounds, as they are such particular
 13     II,  VIII  |         ideas of several colours, sounds, smells, tastes, &c. These
 14     II,  VIII  |         have of distinct colours, sounds, &c., containing nothing
 15     II,  IX    |       notice of the characters or sounds, but of the ideas that are
 16     II,  IX    |          every sentence pronounce sounds which, though taken notice
 17     II,  X     |           should produce the like sounds; and why the sounds they
 18     II,  X     |          like sounds; and why the sounds they make themselves, should
 19     II,  XI    |         the framing of articulate sounds, they begin to make use
 20     II,  XI    |        organs to frame articulate sounds, that they have no use or
 21     II,  XI    |         we find, can fashion such sounds, and pronounce words distinctly
 22     II,  XIII  |            by making a noise with sounds, without clear and distinct
 23     II,  XIV   |           our ideas, as where two sounds or pains, &c., take up in
 24     II,  XIV   |        body in motion, or between sounds or smells following one
 25     II,  XVIII |          with motion.~3. Modes of sounds. The like variety have we
 26     II,  XVIII |           like variety have we in sounds. Every articulate word is
 27     II,  XVIII |        almost an infinite number. Sounds also, besides the distinct
 28     II,  XVIII |  reflecting on the ideas of those sounds, so put together silently
 29     II,  XXI   |    notions of internal actions by sounds, that I must here warn my
 30     II,  XXI   |         any variety of articulate sounds whatsoever. This caution
 31     II,  XXI   |  explained the nature of colours, sounds, tastes, smells, and all
 32     II,  XXII  |      simple ideas:—(1) Articulate sounds. (2) Certain ideas in the
 33     II,  XXIII |   corporeal signs, and particular sounds; which are therefore of
 34     II,  XXV   |          that are more than empty sounds must signify some idea,
 35     II,  XXVII |          to apply what articulate sounds to what ideas he thinks
 36     II,  XXVIII|      easily to the impressions of sounds, and are forward to take
 37     II,  XXIX  |         as distinguishable as the sounds that stand for them, there
 38     II,  XXIX  |         as the ideas of those two sounds they are marked by, there
 39    III,  I     |         fitted to form articulate sounds. God, having designed man
 40    III,  I     |           fit to frame articulate sounds, which we call words. But
 41    III,  I     |         taught to make articulate sounds distinct enough, which yet
 42    III,  I     |         language.~2. To use these sounds as signs of ideas. Besides
 43    III,  I     |         ideas. Besides articulate sounds, therefore, it was further
 44    III,  I     |       should be able to use these sounds as signs of internal conceptions;
 45    III,  I     |      perfection of language, that sounds can be made signs of ideas,
 46    III,  I     |         which advantageous use of sounds was obtained only by the
 47    III,  I     |           perfectly insignificant sounds; but they relate to positive
 48    III,  II    |    quickness, as those articulate sounds, which with so much ease
 49    III,  II    |     between particular articulate sounds and certain ideas, for then
 50    III,  II    |          of speech is, that those sounds, as marks, may make known
 51    III,  II    |       make them signs of nothing, sounds without signification. A
 52    III,  II    |         not be understood, if the sounds they applied to one idea
 53    III,  II    |         connexion between certain sounds and the ideas they stand
 54    III,  II    |          learn certain articulate sounds very perfectly, and have
 55    III,  II    |          been accustomed to those sounds. But so far as words are
 56    III,  II    |     consent, appropriates certain sounds to certain ideas in all
 57    III,  III   |         between its ideas and the sounds it uses as signs of them,
 58    III,  III   |          between them and certain sounds as signs of them; and will
 59    III,  IV    |      stands for. For, words being sounds, can produce in us no other
 60    III,  IV    |          ideas than of those very sounds; nor excite any in us, but
 61    III,  IV    |          for the signification of sounds is not natural, but only
 62    III,  IV    |         formed, is to expect that sounds should be visible, or colours
 63    III,  IV    |        word by any other words or sounds whatsoever, put together
 64    III,  IV    |       comprehend both colours and sounds, and the like simple ideas,
 65    III,  IV    | acceptation, comprehends colours, sounds, tastes, smells, and tangible
 66    III,  V     |          of language is, by short sounds, to signify with ease and
 67    III,  V     |          law, which are not empty sounds, will hardly find words
 68    III,  V     |          tapers, orders, motions, sounds, does it contain in that
 69    III,  V     |           look beyond fashionable sounds, and observe what ideas
 70    III,  VI    |      abstract them, and make what sounds they pleased the signs of
 71    III,  VI    |       take them for insignificant sounds, but must needs conclude
 72    III,  IX    |         serve the turn. For since sounds are voluntary and indifferent
 73    III,  IX    |           the speaker. Now, since sounds have no natural connexion
 74    III,  IX    |        colours to a blind man, or sounds to a deaf man, need not
 75    III,  IX    |    another’s heads with noise and sounds; but convey not thereby
 76    III,  IX    |         of them, moral words, the sounds are usually learned first;
 77    III,  IX    |      mouths little more than bare sounds; or when they have any,
 78    III,  X     |          party, they remain empty sounds, with little or no signification,
 79    III,  X     |           they have learned those sounds, and have them ready at
 80    III,  X     |      united in nature, their bare sounds are often only thought on,
 81    III,  X     |    subtilize the signification of sounds, so as never to want something
 82    III,  X     |         useful as to confound the sounds that the letters of the
 83    III,  X     |       bigger than another; but it sounds harsh (and I think is never
 84    III,  X     |          of those common received sounds, the speaker and hearer
 85    III,  X     |        amount to nothing but bare sounds, and nothing else.~27. When
 86    III,  X     |        his terms. For however the sounds are such as are familiarly
 87    III,  X     |      words, and speaks only empty sounds. He that hath complex ideas
 88    III,  XI    |            about little more than sounds, whilst the ideas they annex
 89    III,  XI    |       Addicted to wrangling about sounds. Let us look into the books
 90    III,  XI    |         noise and wrangling about sounds, without convincing or bettering
 91    III,  XI    |           the vain ostentation of sounds; i.e. those who spend their
 92    III,  XI    |            but spoke them only as sounds, which usually served instead
 93     IV,  III   |       with them than any words or sounds whatsoever. Diagrams drawn
 94     IV,  III   |        sensations, as of colours, sounds, tastes, smells, pleasure,
 95     IV,  III   |    sensation in us of colours and sounds, &c., by impulse and motion;
 96     IV,  III   |           about, or stick only in sounds of doubtful and uncertain
 97     IV,  III   |           would consider, and not sounds instead of them, have avoided
 98     IV,  IV    |           and certainty, whatever sounds we make use of.~10. Misnaming
 99     IV,  IV    |           ourselves up to certain sounds, and the imaginations of
100     IV,  V     |     denying, these signs, made by sounds, are, as it were, put together
101     IV,  V     |       these ideas, thus marked by sounds, agree to their archetypes,
102     IV,  VI    |        prevailing custom of using sounds for ideas, I think it is
103     IV,  VIII  |        can it be but playing with sounds, to affirm that of the name
104     IV,  VIII  |    imitation, and framing certain sounds, which he has learnt of
105     IV,  VIII  |        about the signification of sounds. For since no abstract idea
106     IV,  VIII  |          thoughts stick wholly in sounds, and are able to attain
107     IV,  XI    |       from another man, draw such sounds as I beforehand design they
108     IV,  XI    |          a long series of regular sounds to affect my ears, which
109     IV,  XVII  |            it is only about those sounds, and nothing else.~10. II.
110     IV,  XVIII |        ideas but of their natural sounds: and it is by the custom
111     IV,  XXI   |       make use of, are articulate sounds. The consideration, then,