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“The only names of objects which connote nothing are proper names; and these have, strictly speaking, no signification.” John Stuart Mill, A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive
“whether a woman is a concubine to fuck or a damsel to redeem, she’s always just some passive object to fulfill a man’s purpose.” Chuck Palahniuk, Snuff
“I say, then, that belief is nothing but a more vivid, lively, forcible, firm, steady conception of an object, than what the imagination alone is ever able to attain.” David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

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An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (1)
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