Book,  Chapter

  1      I,  I    |          any further than they are signs of our ideas, we cannot
  2     II,  I    |           of nature, will find few signs of a soul accustomed to
  3     II,  XI   |        degrees to learn the use of signs. And when they have got
  4     II,  XI   |            to others. These verbal signs they sometimes borrow from
  5     II,  XI   |           of making use of general signs for universal ideas; from
  6     II,  XI   |        words, or any other general signs.~11. Brutes abstract not,
  7     II,  XI   |           their universal ideas by signs, which serve them instead
  8     II,  XIII |   understand them, but as they are signs of and stand for determined
  9     II,  XV   |            the beginning to be for signs and for seasons and for
 10     II,  XXI  |            of the signification of signs. 3. The perception of the
 11     II,  XXII |       speaker. (3) Those words the signs of those ideas. (4) Those
 12     II,  XXII |          of those ideas. (4) Those signs put together, by affirmation
 13     II,  XXIII|           to make use of corporeal signs, and particular sounds;
 14     II,  XXIX |          names, as supposed steady signs of things, and by their
 15     II,  XXIX |          to distinct names, as the signs of distinct things, it will
 16     II,  XXXII|        each of those names are the signs of in other men.~12. And
 17     II,  XXXII|          not to be found but where signs are joined or separated,
 18     II,  XXXII|         things they stand for. The signs we chiefly use are either
 19    III,  I    |             To use these sounds as signs of ideas. Besides articulate
 20    III,  I    |        able to use these sounds as signs of internal conceptions;
 21    III,  I    |            3. To make them general signs. But neither was this sufficient
 22    III,  I    |            that sounds can be made signs of ideas, unless those signs
 23    III,  I    |       signs of ideas, unless those signs can be so made use of as
 24    III,  I    |           the ideas they were made signs of: those names becoming
 25    III,  II   |       Words ~1. Words are sensible signs, necessary for communication
 26    III,  II   |         out some external sensible signs, whereof those invisible
 27    III,  II   |          made use of by men as the signs of their ideas; not by any
 28    III,  II   |    signification, are the sensible signs of his ideas who uses them.
 29    III,  II   |         this would be to make them signs of his own conceptions,
 30    III,  II   |        which would be to make them signs and not signs of his ideas
 31    III,  II   |            make them signs and not signs of his ideas at the same
 32    III,  II   |         all. Words being voluntary signs, they cannot be voluntary
 33    III,  II   |           they cannot be voluntary signs imposed by him on things
 34    III,  II   |         That would be to make them signs of nothing, sounds without
 35    III,  II   |          cannot make his words the signs either of qualities in things,
 36    III,  II   |            man; nor can he use any signs for them of another man;
 37    III,  II   |            man; nor can he use any signs for them: for thus they
 38    III,  II   |         for thus they would be the signs of he knows not what, which
 39    III,  II   |        which is in truth to be the signs of nothing. But when he
 40    III,  II   |         they being immediately the signs of men’s ideas, and by that
 41    III,  II   |           ideas we take them to be signs of: and every man has so
 42    III,  II   |         his ideas, and they can be signs of nothing else.  ~
 43    III,  III  |          and the sounds it uses as signs of them, it is necessary,
 44    III,  III  |          general by being made the signs of general ideas: and ideas
 45    III,  III  |          own use, and concern only signs, whether words or ideas.
 46    III,  III  |           been said, when used for signs of general ideas, and so
 47    III,  III  |          have made those names the signs? And what are the essences
 48    III,  III  |         them and certain sounds as signs of them; and will always
 49    III,  IV   |       light to the nature of these signs and our ideas, as to deserve
 50    III,  IV   |       common use has made them the signs of. He that thinks otherwise,
 51    III,  VI   |            else but the being made signs of such complex ideas wherein
 52    III,  VI   |       elephant, and never give any signs of being acted by a rational
 53    III,  VI   |           pass well enough for the signs of some few obvious qualities
 54    III,  VI   |            short and comprehensive signs, than the true and precise
 55    III,  VI   |         more or less comprehensive signs, whereby we may be enabled
 56    III,  VI   |       convenience of comprehensive signs; under which individuals,
 57    III,  VI   |            sounds they pleased the signs of them: but the use of
 58    III,  VI   |  explication; they being voluntary signs in every one.~46. Instances
 59    III,  VII  |         others, does not only need signs of the ideas it has then
 60    III,  VII  |        explication of this sort of signs. The instances I have given
 61    III,  IX   |          voluntary and indifferent signs of any ideas, a man may
 62    III,  IX   |        studious men, make them the signs of. Where shall one find
 63    III,  IX   |          will have our names to be signs of them, and stand for them.
 64    III,  IX   |          idea others make them the signs of is not so certain: and
 65    III,  X    |          whereby they render these signs less clear and distinct
 66    III,  X    |         ideas; or, which is worse, signs without anything signified.
 67    III,  X    |            and therefore they make signs till they are so; yet this
 68    III,  X    |           Words being intended for signs of my ideas, to make them
 69    III,  X    |       taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only; and not
 70    III,  X    |       effect to make our words the signs of nothing; yet it is evident
 71    III,  X    |         the voluntary and unsteady signs of their own ideas. And
 72    III,  X    |        minds, whereof they are the signs: or, 2. When they apply
 73    III,  X    |           too, when we use them as signs of real beings, which yet
 74    III,  XI   |            a man uses his words as signs of some ideas: those he
 75    III,  XI   |          for which they make these signs stand; but they must also
 76    III,  XI   |         able to understand general signs, and to deduce consequences
 77     IV,  IV   |         annexed to them, to be the signs of them.~18. Recapitulation.
 78     IV,  V    |           joining or separating of signs, i.e. either ideas or words.
 79     IV,  V    |           joining or separating of Signs, as the Things signified
 80     IV,  V    |           joining or separating of signs here meant, is what by another
 81     IV,  V    |          as there are two sorts of signs commonly made use of, viz.
 82     IV,  V    | propositions, which are words, the signs of our ideas, put together
 83     IV,  V    |        affirming or denying, these signs, made by sounds, are, as
 84     IV,  V    |           in joining or separating signs; and truth consists in the
 85     IV,  V    |       together or separating those signs, according as the things
 86     IV,  V    |     contain real truth, when these signs are joined, as our ideas
 87     IV,  VI   |            we make those names the signs, is to confound truth, and
 88     IV,  VIII |           creature, using them for signs of ideas which he has in
 89     IV,  VIII |           and application of these signs.~This I think I may lay
 90     IV,  XVII |        dubious words and uncertain signs, often, in discourses and
 91     IV,  XVII |         their consequences, as the signs of such ideas: and things
 92     IV,  XVIII|       either by words or any other signs. Because words, by their
 93     IV,  XVIII|           custom of using them for signs, that they excite and revive
 94     IV,  XVIII|          they have been wont to be signs of, but cannot introduce
 95     IV,  XVIII|            same holds in all other signs; which cannot signify to
 96     IV,  XIX  |          from God, but had outward signs to convince them of the
 97     IV,  XIX  |        from heaven, and by visible signs to assert the divine authority
 98     IV,  XIX  |          without any extraordinary signs accompanying it. But in
 99     IV,  XXI  |     Semeiotike, or the doctrine of signs; the most usual whereof
100     IV,  XXI  |          to consider the nature of signs, the mind makes use of for
101     IV,  XXI  |       record them for our own use, signs of our ideas are also necessary:
102     IV,  XXI  |            of his own ends; or the signs the mind makes use of both
103     IV,  XXI  |    happiness; and the right use of signs in order to knowledge, being