Bennett, Jonathan retired, previously at the Universities of Cambridge and British Columbia, and at Syracuse University, New York
Print publication date: 2001 (this edition)
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online:
Print ISBN-13: 978-0-19-825092-0
doi:10.1093/0198250924.003.0007
 

Jonathan Bennett
Locke wrote both scornfully and acceptingly about the thought of ‘substance’, understood as the substratum of all qualities. This is because he was trying to talk about the notion of a thing; he thought we could not do without the ‘thing’ thought, but that it could not satisfy his own theory about how a general word comes to have a meaning. The chapter shows how he could have avoided the second horn of this dilemma; it also discusses Ayers's rival interpretation of the texts on substratum.
Keywords: Ayers, Locke, meaning, substance, substratum, thing
doi:10.1093/0198250924.003.0007
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