书城公版Of the Conduct of the Understanding
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第7章 Ideas

I will not here,in what relates to the right conduct and improvement of the understanding,repeat again the getting clear and determined ideas and the employing our thoughts rather about them than about sounds put for them,nor of settling the signification of words which we use with ourselves in the search of truth or Pith others in discoursing about it.Those hindrances of our understandings in the pursuit of knowledge I have sufficiently enlarged upon in another place ,so that nothing more needs here to be said of those matters.