
HoP 273 - What Do You Think? - Ockham on Mental Language
History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps
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What Is the Signification of a Mental Word?
Aham: A mental term is caused by the thing it signifies. It is through encounters with spoons that we got to have the term for spoon in our mental language. There can be only one mental term that is caused by spoons and resembles spoons. In conventional languages, there can be more than one word that signify the same thing - such as lufl and spoon. The reason english has two terms where mental language has only one is just a matter of stylistic ornamentation.
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