...general ideas.) From which it follows, that men who use language are able to abstract or generalize their ideas. That this is the sense and arguing of...ideas' (Essay on Human Understanding, b. iii, ch. iii, sect. 6). But it seems that a word becomes general by being made the sign, not of an abstract...

...having general ideas. From which it follows that men who use language are able to abstract or generalize their ideas. That this is the sense and arguing of the author will further appear by Ms answering the question he in another place puts : ' Since all things that exist are only particulars,...

...trees everywhere would be a very strange object indeed. Thus, Locke puts the problem this way: "[f]or since all things that exist are only particulars, how come we by general Terms, or where find we those general Natures they are supposed to stand for?"22 Locke is committed to the...