[Margin: Understanding]
(¶ 2.10) The imagination that is raised in man (or any other
creature endued
with the faculty of imagining) by words, or other voluntary signs, is that
we generally call understanding, and is common to man and beast. For a dog
by custom will understand the call or the rating of his master; and so will
many other beasts. That understanding which is peculiar to man is the
understanding not only his will, but his conceptions and thoughts, by the
sequel and contexture of the names of things into affirmations, negations,
and other forms of speech: and of this kind of understanding I shall speak
hereafter.