Spiritual Experiences (Buss) n. 1395

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1395. That many senses can form one idea, thus one word or sign, and so be understood together, is especially evident from spiritual speech in which many such senses form, as it were, one simple and instantaneous idea. For example, the things said just above, and also what is said here concerning words and their meaning, form only one idea when we speak with spirits; so in other cases. Such an idea is also given with men, for when one has read these things he grasps them under one idea. Likewise in other cases. 1748, Mar. 15.


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