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editLocke
editMen content themselves with the same words other people use, as if the very sound carried the same meaning.
This is included in the opening quotations of 1923/Ogden.
This could be such an allusion that:
Men content themselves with the same words other people use, as if the very sound
(say, of the bible)carried the same meaning.