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1 Read | reason to think every one who uses does not perfectly understand. 2 Read | not but that when any one uses any term, he may have in 3 Read | distinct from the sound it uses as a sign of it. (2) That 4 II, I | excellent things for mean or no uses: and it is hardly to be 5 II, IX | the same alteration that uses to be for the producing 6 II, IX | and though the motion that uses to produce the idea of sound 7 II, IX | does hear: but that which uses to produce the idea, though 8 II, XXIII| as to apply them to our uses, and several ways to accommodate 9 II, XXX | plain that the mind of man uses some kind of liberty in 10 II, XXXI | has in his mind when he uses it. And in this case, if 11 II, XXXI | other’s idea, as the name he uses in speaking is conformable 12 II, XXXI | and signify by the name he uses for it; which name he would 13 II, XXXII| choose any of them for our uses as we have occasion; it 14 III, II | sensible signs of his ideas who uses them. The use men have of 15 III, II | in the mind of him that uses them, how imperfectly soever 16 III, II | the sound gold, when he uses it, stands for a complex 17 III, II | malleability. Each of these uses equally the word gold, when 18 III, III | ideas and the sounds it uses as signs of them, it is 19 III, III | nurse and mamma, the child uses, determine themselves to 20 III, IV | to stand for by him that uses them, the meaning of any 21 III, VI | distinguish them from their uses; and better know what they 22 III, VI | understand not of him that uses it: it being as impossible 23 III, IX | true knowledge. These two uses are very distinct; and a 24 III, IX | notions, and ideas of him that uses them, must unavoidably be 25 III, X | in what sense another man uses his words; since he has 26 III, X | them, does, so far as he uses them in discourse, only 27 III, X | sign for the same idea, but uses the same words sometimes 28 III, X | thoughts of him who thus uses them.~30. When they are 29 III, X | use periphrases. He that uses his words loosely and unsteadily 30 III, X | inconveniences: v.g. he that uses the word tarantula, without 31 III, X | names himself. 3. He that uses the word body sometimes 32 III, XI | advantage of mankind. He that uses words without any clear 33 III, XI | one may do in the words he uses himself), I shall think 34 III, XI | It is not enough a man uses his words as signs of some 35 III, XI | show in what sense he there uses that term. ~ 36 IV, II | intermediate idea which it uses as a proof: for if it were 37 IV, II | determined ideas to the words he uses, cannot make propositions 38 IV, IV | necessities, and apply them to our uses. Thus the idea of whiteness, 39 IV, VIII | signification of the word another uses to me, or else he is to 40 IV, VIII | understand the terms he uses in it, or else he talks 41 IV, VIII | the terms as the speaker uses them, or else he talks jargon,