Thesis Summary
This page links speech to reasoned expression, not merely to sound, and makes it an instrument for conveying meaning. It also affirms that critical reason is a condition for understanding, so that interpretation does not remain merely formal.
Foundational Atoms
Place of Reliance within the Book
The summary relies on the final section of the book, in the passages that define speech and connect it to critical reason and the method of understanding.
Limits of the Reading
What is meant here is to regulate the instrument of understanding, not to replace the text; therefore the summary remains within the relation between word and meaning as presented in the atoms.