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Often appears with: reason and the intellect · marks of mental action · logic, method, and demonstration · language, naming, and meaning · connection of propositions · affirmation and negation
Usually: argument (1) · curiosity (1)
“Besides words which are names of ideas in the mind, there are a great many others that are made use of to signify the CONNEXION that the mind gives to ideas, or to propositions, one with another.” John Locke, An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume 2 · observation
Locke explains that besides words naming ideas, languages use “particles” to signal mental connections between propositions, enabling coherent reasoning through affirmation and negation.
OF PARTICLES. 1. Particles connect Parts, or whole Sentences together. Besides words which are names of ideas in the mind, there are a great many others that are made use of to signify the CONNEXION that the mind gives to ideas, or to propositions, one with another. The mind, in communicating its thoughts to others, does not only need signs of the ideas it has then before it, but others also, to show or intimate so…