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Locke

Men content themselves with the same words other people use, as if the very sound carried the same meaning.

This is included in the opening quotations of 1923/Ogden.

This could be such an allusion that:

Men content themselves with the same words other people use, as if the very sound (say, of the bible) carried the same meaning.

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