For Mill, this definition from Hobbes gives names a twofold purpose: (1) a name is a mark that allows us to recall a former thought, and (2) a name is a means of communicating our thoughts to others, a sign (in Mill's words) of "what thought the speaker had before in his mind".
I was also glad to be reminded that mathematics is not just something we do in school or something that helps us solve problems, but is also a way of communicating thoughts and ideas.
Results revealed two themes: developing a virtual relationship with a therapis and the process of communicating thoughts and emotions via an online medium.
The idea is to stop using it as a major source of communicating your thoughts, behavior, and language.
"Not only did these scans tell us that the patient was not in a vegetative state but, more importantly, for the first time in five years it provided the patient with a way of communicating his thoughts to the outside world".
The three laws "specifically put writers at risk", say the authors, and they "cannot stand quietly by as we watch our fellow writers and journalists pressed into silence or risking prosecution and often drastic punishment for the mere act of communicating their thoughts".
He had forgotten just enough to make a conversation exasperating, but not enough for him to give up hope of communicating his thoughts, such as they were, and of listening to me, in an effort to remind himself of what life was, and perhaps even to escape, however momentarily, into some pretense of life of his own.
We have easy access to a wide range of digital images, and social media has become our way of communicating both our thoughts and visual references.
So when we talk about signification, it's the act of signifying, of communicating one's thoughts by using words that are a sign of them, that is basic.
The first visit begins with two thought-provoking vignettes that highlight the importance of communicating one's wishes about future medical care and research participation.
