 | Philosophy - 1910 - 470 pages
...flutter at the false light of a glass window for want of wit to consider which way they came in. So that in the right definition of names lies the first use...their instruction from the authority of books and not from their own meditation to be as much below the condition of ignorant men as men endued with true... | |
 | Literature - 1910 - 470 pages
...flutter at the false light of a glass window for want of wit to consider which way they came in. So that in the right definition of names lies the first use...their instruction from the authority of books and not from their own meditation to be as much below the condition of ignorant men as men endued with true... | |
 | Robert Maynard Leonard - English literature - 1912 - 788 pages
...be one whom we are obliged to govern ; and then it is not to grieve, but to correct and amend. ... In the right definition of names, lies the first use...their instruction from the authority of books, and not from their own meditation to be as much below the condition of ignorant men, as men endued with true... | |
 | Frank Thilly - Philosophy - 1914 - 640 pages
...trains of words, which helps us to register our thoughts as well as to communicate them to others. In the right definition of names lies the first use of speech, which is the acquisition of Science. In Science we use universal terms, but the things themselves are not universal, there is nothing called... | |
 | W. F. Bolton - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1966 - 244 pages
...for want of wit to consider which way they came in. So that in the right Definition of Names, lyes the first use of Speech; which is the Acquisition of Science: And in wrong, or no Definitions, lyes the first abuse; from which proceed all false and senslesse Tenets; which make those men that... | |
 | Michael Ragussis - Literary Criticism - 1987 - 279 pages
...arbitrary signs, they have the capacity to become the perfect instrument of knowledge. As Hobbes puts it, "in the right definition of names lies the first use...speech, which is the acquisition of science"; and again, "By the advantage of names it is that we are capable of science." 5 Hence the classificatory... | |
 | Julie Stone Peters - Drama - 1990 - 312 pages
...fluttering over their books."16 In definitions, such as those Hobbes is about to give in his own book, lies the first use of speech, "which is the acquisition...in wrong, or no definitions, lies the first abuse . . . which make those men that take their instruction from the authority of books, and not from their... | |
 | Robert E. Stillman - Biography & Autobiography - 1995 - 372 pages
...it accordingly"(3.23). By constructing definitions, the philosopher achieves this ordering of names: "[I]n the right definition of names lies the first...in wrong, or no definitions, lies the first abuse" (3.24). In the course of specifying the key role played by definition in philosophy, what Hobbes leaves... | |
 | Terence Ball - Political Science - 1994 - 330 pages
...counsels Hobbes, and take the rigorous road of science. For 'in the right Definition of Names, lyes the first use of Speech; which is the Acquisition of Science: And in wrong, or no Definitions, lyes the first abuse; from which proceed all false and senseless tenets'.41 From conceptual confusion... | |
 | David Wootton - Political Science - 1996 - 964 pages
...flutter at the false light of a glass window, for want of wit to consider which way they came in. So that every man looketh from their own meditation, to be as much below the condition of ignorant men, as men endued with true... | |
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... which make those men that take their instruction from the authority of books and not from their own meditation to be as much below the condition of ignorant men as men endued with true science are above it. 
