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John Locke
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding Section S2
Section 905 of 1,114
Canonical reference B4.C5.S2
English
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either Ideas or Words.
Truth, then, seems to me, in the proper import of the word, to signify nothing but THE JOINING OR SEPERATING OF SIGNS, AS THE THINGS SIGNIFIED BY THEM DO AGREE OR DISAGREE ONE WITH ANOTHER. The joining or separating of signs here meant, is what by another name we call PROPOSITION. So that truth properly belongs only to propositions: whereof there are two sorts, viz. mental and verbal; as there are two sorts of signs commonly made use of, viz. ideas and words.
French
Pierre Coste · Pierre Mortier, Amsterdam, 1735, third edition
Il me ſemble donc que la Vérité n’emporte autre choſe, ſelon la ſignification propre du mot, que la conjonction ou de la ſéparation des ſignes ſuivant que les Choſes mêmes conviennent ou diſconviennent entr’elles. Il faut entendre ici par la conjonction ou la ſeparation des ſignes ce que nous appelons autrement Propoſition. De ſorte que la Vérité n’appartient proprement qu’aux Propoſitions ; dont il y en a deux ſortes, l’une Mentale, & l’autre Verbale, ainſi que les ſignes dont on ſe ſert communément ſont de deux ſortes, ſavoir les Idées & les Mots.
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