The Philosophy of Language in Britain: Major Theories from Hobbes to Thomas Reid

abstraction action adjectives Alciphron analysis analytic articulate attribute barbarous languages Berkeleian Berkeley Berkeley's called Cartesian Linguistics common sense comparison complex ideas conception concerned Condillac connection consists copula corresponding declensions definition denote derived Descartes discussion distinction distinguish divine language Essay EUPHRANOR evidence example express fact formal principles guage Harris Harris's Hobbes human ideational impersonal verbs inflection judgment kind knowledge linguistic linguistic universals living creature Locke Locke's Lockean theory logic meaning Monboddo names natural signs nature notion nouns object original particular passage perceived perception philosophical grammar philosophical grammarians philosophy of language Port-Royal predication qualities reason reference reflection Reid Reid's relations rules semantic theory sensation sentence sequence of ideas signs simple ideas Smith sound speaker species speech act spirits stage structures substance suggestion suppose syntax theory of ideas theory of language theory of mind things thought tion understanding universal utterance verbal