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- adverb In a
prelinguistic manner or context; before theacquisition oflanguage .
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Hartley's approach is nearly the opposite of Locke's, who writes as if language were a dictionary, in which each word marks an idea known prelinguistically to the speaker: “words being voluntary signs, they cannot be voluntary signs imposed by [the speaker] on things he knows not ¦.
David Hartley Allen, Richard 2009
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