Alexander Bryan Johnson - Verbal Quotes

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Whoever estimates the sensible sameness by the verbal identity of their common name will commit the error of mistaking for physical what is only intellectual.... the sensible signification of language is strictly limited by the sensible knowledge of the hearer.

Alexander Bryan Johnson

Locke supposes that a person acquainted sensibly with the colours which compose a rainbow, can by the names of such colours in a verbal description, be made visually acquainted with a rainbow. The verbal description will give such a person's intellect a good verbal definition of the word rainbow, but it cannot communicate the sight to the extent that it differs, in any manner from the sights he already knows.

Alexander Bryan Johnson