id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 31142 Haslam, John On the Nature of Thought Or, The act of thinking and its connexion with a perspicuous sentence .txt text/plain 10177 446 51 indeed are mind and language, so _identically one_ are thought and words being the elements of Thought, did not originate from my own commutation of our perceptions for a significant sound or word, which by commutation of the object of perception for the word, on which the words, impregnated with meaning, affords the blind considerable facility knowledge, (his perceptions being commuted for words,) and the meaning reasonings within themselves, make use of WORDS, instead of Ideas, at _words_ instead of Ideas in his thinking and reasoning within himself. abstract Idea, or naked Thought, can select the befitting expression, words to express the Thoughts they have conceived. It is certain that Ideas may exist in the mind, as the connected When the Idea or phantasm that is connected with visual perception possesses a distinct meaning, cannot constitute a thought, which thought, certain words are absolutely necessary, each containing an ./cache/31142.txt ./txt/31142.txt