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For, so long as men thought abstract ideas were annexed to their words, it doth not seem strange that they AsiaCarrerafa1 should use words for ideas- it being found an impracticable thing to lay aside the word, and retain the abstract idea in the mind, which in itself was perfectly inconceivable..

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