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      Sobre conocimiento y significado en el Essay de John Locke Translated title: John Locke’s Essay on Knowledge and Meaning

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      Pontificio Seminario Mayor San Rafael Valparaíso
      Locke, knowledge, meaning, scholastics, Locke, conocimiento, significado, escolásticos

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          Al final del Libro II del An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Locke manifiesta que «hay una relación tan íntima entre las ideas y las palabras […] que es imposible hablar clara y distintamente de nuestro conocimiento, que consiste completamente en proposiciones, sin considerar, primero, la naturaleza, uso y significación del lenguaje». De varias y diversas maneras Locke insiste en la tesis que ‘las palabras significan ideas’. En este ensayo me propongo: 1º resumir la teoría general del lenguaje de Locke; 2º revisar algunas objeciones regulares a esta teoría, y 3º intentar una explicación de lo que Locke quiere decir cuando enuncia que ‘las palabras significan ideas’. Con respecto a este punto mostraré, apoyando la interpretación de E. J. Ashworth, que en su tesis semántica Locke usa el vocablo ‘significar’ (‘signifying’) no del modo como es usado por los teóricos contemporáneos del siglo XX, sino en el sentido que algunos escolásticos usaron el término ‘significare’.

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          At the very end of Book II of ‘An Essay Concerning Human Understanding’, Locke finds out «that there is so close a connexion between Ideas and Words […] that it is impossible to speak clearly and distinctly of our Knowledge, which all consists in Propositions, without considering first the Nature, Use, and Signification of Language». In various and diverse ways Locke defends the thesis that ‘Words signify Ideas’. My aim in this paper is first, to sum up Locke’s general theory of Language; secondly, to revisit some regular objections concerning this theory, and thirdly, to intend an explanation of what Locke means when he points out that ‘Words signify ideas’. In regard to this point, I shall hold up E. J. Ashworth’s interpretation to show that Locke semantic thesis involves the use of the verb ‘to signify’ (‘signifying’) not in the manner that it is used by contemporary theorists of the twentieth century, but in the sense that some scholastics used the term ‘significare’.

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                Veritas
                Veritas
                Pontificio Seminario Mayor San Rafael Valparaíso (Valparaíso, , Chile )
                0718-9273
                September 2013
                : 29
                : 119-137
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                [01] orgnamePontificia Universidad Católica de Chile Chile gburland@ 123456uc.cl
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                S0718-92732013000200006 S0718-9273(13)00002900006
                10.4067/S0718-92732013000200006
                0210fddc-cd0e-42c1-8040-464ea72f6eba

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                : 02 May 2011
                : 21 March 2011
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                significado,conocimiento,Locke,knowledge,scholastics,meaning,escolásticos

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