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Avramides I 140
BerkeleyVsLocke: no "generalizing forces" - linguistic generalization is no generalization of mind. - Singular names do not have to give rise to the understanding of ideas. >Generalization.
It is not the main purpose of language to evoke ideas.
Instead: even eliciting of passion discouraging and encouraging of actions, etc.
>Ideas, >Understanding.
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Breidert I 228ff
Language/Berkeley: Philosophical errors are often explained linguistically. - Incorrect projection: the idea of a thing.
Ambiguity: "something" or "a thing": is applicable to ideas or acts of will.
Ideas/Berkeley: ideas of things perceived.
Notion/Berkeley: concept of a mind and its activities.

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