CHAPTER VII.

WORDS NOTHING IN THEMSELVES.

Inferences drawn from the derivation of all words from ‘sensible ideas.’--Gradual degeneracy of the Sensational School.--Condillac.--Helvetius.--The Diversions of Purley.--Real derivation of the words ‘If’ and ‘Truth.’--What words really stand for.--The conclusions of nominalism need not be accepted.--Reason.--Words which can only be explained by the idea. 147