PHL100Y1 Lecture : Language & Ideas.docx
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A: not locke"s plan, his intention was to classify our knowledge and ideas. Locke: we cannot account for knowledge without understanding the nature of language. _ locke concludes that language takes a central role in human intuition. Locke: communication: thoughts are conveyed from one person to another, reflecting on the way human beings share their perceptions about reality, it"s what brings societies together, human beings are meant to be social. ** 3 main elements of language: thoughts, words, object (the world) How is language connected to our ideas? (the relation between thought and language) Lock emphasizes 2 categories between language and thought. Thoughts are internal and known through experience: language without thought and thought w/o language, language is made of words, and thoughts are made out of ideas. Language is made by the whole to represent thoughts of individuals. Role of communication is to overcome the disagreement between these two entities. Example of problem: the words escaped my mouth .
