It seems to me that Locke's perspective is more accurate because different people may associate different thoughts with the same word. The same word may also stimulate different ideas in people's minds depending on their life experiences.
I feel that Mill is sort of representing a robot's point of view, or someone or something that speaks with no emotion nor experience of life. Yes, words in and of themselves do not represent other meanings, although as humans, we naturally perceive words differently based on our experiences of those words.
I wonder if Locke's view includes words like "the" or "and", which aren't concrete objects or abstract ideas, because they are "words" as he stated.
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