A tranquil cave scene with smooth rock formations and clear blue water reflecting the stone walls. Overlaid text reads: “Thus we may conceive how words … came to be made use of by men as the signs of their ideas … by a voluntary imposition, whereby such a word is made arbitrarily the mark of such an idea. The use, then, of words, is to be sensible marks of ideas; and the ideas they stand for are their proper and immediate signification.” — John Locke At the bottom left is the Humanism Church logo, featuring a stylized human figure above an open book. At the bottom right is the text “humanism.church.”
Words are inventions of man and are endowed with meaning arbitrarily to signify a meaning. Words are the not the thoughts themselves, but signifiers of concepts an ideas first. #JohnLocke #Humanism #Philosophy #HumanismChurch