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1 Read | choice of these terms to signify, (1) Some immediate object 2 I, I | understands not: imprinting, if it signify anything, being nothing 3 I, I | have any propriety, they signify to be understood. So that 4 I, I | present purpose, it must signify one of these two things: 5 I, II | virtue when virtue is used to signify what is in its own nature 6 I, II | put, as it usually is, to signify in general ill actions that 7 I, III | idea at all; and therefore signify nothing by the word substance 8 II, VII | I would be understood to signify, whatsoever delights or 9 II, XI | to make use of words, to signify their ideas to others. These 10 II, XIV | not measure ourselves, or signify to others, the length of 11 II, XVI | some fit denominations to signify them by; whereas, in the 12 II, XVII | that punctum stans, if it signify anything, being not quantum, 13 II, XX | velleity, the term used to signify the lowest degree of desire, 14 II, XXI | and the like terms, that signify desire as well as volition, 15 II, XXI | liberty (if it could be) would signify nothing. If a man sees what 16 II, XXI | active, does not always signify action: v.g. this proposition: 17 II, XXI | a verb active, does not signify any action in me, whereby 18 II, XXII | Several words seeming to signify action, signify but the 19 II, XXII | seeming to signify action, signify but the effect. Power being 20 II, XXII | to express some action, signify nothing of the action or 21 II, XXIII | by their specific names, signify to others, v.g. man, horse, 22 II, XXV | more than empty sounds must signify some idea, which is either 23 II, XXV | absolute, because they neither signify nor intimate anything but 24 II, XXVI | that are relative which we signify by names that are thought 25 II, XXVIII| consider the complex idea we signify by the word murder: and 26 II, XXVIII| Thus drunkenness, or lying, signify such or such a collection 27 II, XXVIII| name, v.g. man, is used to signify the thing; another, v.g. 28 II, XXVIII| another, v.g. father, to signify the relation.~16. The denominations 29 II, XXVIII| being commonly understood to signify also the moral pravity of 30 II, XXVIII| have any meaning), or would signify to others, when we use words 31 II, XXX | has them in his mind would signify them to others, so bare 32 II, XXXI | well understood, yet truly signify nothing but those powers 33 II, XXXI | courage annexed to it, to signify to others, and denominate 34 II, XXXI | and intends to express and signify by the name he uses for 35 II, XXXII | other men have, and commonly signify by the same name, they may 36 II, XXXII | appearances, and understand and signify those distinctions marked 37 III, I | particular.~4. To make them signify the absence of positive 38 III, I | men make use of, not to signify any idea, but the want or 39 III, I | properly to belong to, or signify no ideas: for then they 40 III, I | relate to positive ideas, and signify their absence.~5. Words 41 III, I | ultimately derived from such as signify sensible ideas. It may also 42 III, I | known and agreed names to signify those internal operations 43 III, II | properly and immediately signify nothing but the ideas that 44 III, II | between them. But that they signify only men’s peculiar ideas, 45 III, III | evident that they do not signify barely one particular thing; 46 III, III | is as evident they do not signify a plurality; for man and 47 III, III | for man and men would then signify the same; and the distinction 48 III, III | then which general words signify is a sort of things; and 49 III, IV | words, as I have shown, signify nothing immediately but 50 III, IV | mind which they immediately signify, intimate also some real 51 III, IV | of simple ideas and modes signify always both real and nominal 52 III, IV | of simple ideas and modes signify always the real as well 53 III, IV | names of natural substances signify rarely, if ever, anything 54 III, IV | had in his mind, and would signify to another, when he used 55 III, V | is, by short sounds, to signify with ease and dispatch general 56 III, V | names of mixed modes always signify (when they have any determined 57 III, VI | things (for those Latin terms signify to me no more than the English 58 III, VI | found in them; thereby to signify them, when absent, to others, 59 III, VI | which are made use of to signify them; and not in respect 60 III, VI | but use the word animal to signify all which partaked of those 61 III, VI | us see that general terms signify not our abstract ideas, 62 III, VI | terms for the same idea, and signify no more, nor no other thing 63 III, VI | suppose the same word to signify different things in different 64 III, VII | that are made use of to signify the connexion that the mind 65 III, VIII | which should pretend to signify the real essences of those 66 III, IX | what words he pleases to signify his own ideas to himself: 67 III, IX | more than in another to signify any idea: for in that regard 68 III, IX | their names immediately signify, these, as united in the 69 III, IX | perception they immediately signify: which reference is that 70 III, X | explaining them, makes the words signify either nothing at all, or 71 III, X | place of what they cannot signify. Fifthly Another abuse of 72 III, X | they do or can by no means signify. We may observe that in 73 III, X | of a species, and would signify that “a rational animal” 74 III, X | though the word man or gold signify nothing truly but a complex 75 III, X | idea at all, and so can signify nothing at all, when the 76 III, X | essences; though indeed they signify nothing but the complex 77 III, X | idea which others call and signify by this sound, covetousness. 78 III, XI | they must be where they signify anything) to determined 79 III, XI | own nature, be as apt to signify a complex idea made up of 80 III, XI | the same subject, as to signify any other combination; yet, 81 IV, IV | which is as good a word to signify something different from 82 IV, V | proper import of the word, to signify nothing but the joining 83 IV, V | consider, that though our words signify nothing but our ideas, yet 84 IV, V | being designed by them to signify things, the truth they contain 85 IV, VIII | I always comprehend and signify by the word man: and where 86 IV, VIII | I always comprehend and signify by the word palfrey; and 87 IV, VIII | of any other term, it can signify no more but this, that it 88 IV, VIII | or that these two names signify the same idea. Thus, should 89 IV, XVIII | other signs; which cannot signify to us things of which we