...conception of all its technical terms on exactly the same principles as they are done in other sciences. " In the right definition of names lies the first use...from which proceed all false and senseless tenets." So says Hobbes,* nor did any man ever say anything more true. And a writer, who it would have been...

...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...proceed all false and senseless tenets, which make those men-that take their instruction from the authority of books, and not from their own meditation, to...

...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...proceed all false and senseless tenets, which make those men'that take their instruction from the authority of books, and not from their own meditation, to...

...names lies the first use of speech — which is the acquisition [or conveyance] of science ; and m wrong or no definitions lies the first abuse ; from which proceed all false and senseless tenets."* There is, perhaps, no law so unanimously laid down by logicians, and so habitually neglected by speakers...

...knowledge should examine the definitions of former authors, and either correct them or make them anew. In the right definition of names lies the first use...proceed all false and senseless tenets which make these men that take their instruction from the authority of books, and not from their own meditation,...

...of wit (sense) to consider which way they came in. So that in the right definition of names (terms') lies the first use of speech, which is the acquisition of science (ie true knowkdge), and in wrong or no definitions lies the first abuse, from which proceed all false...

...our affirmations," and hence the propriety of settling the significations of words by definitions. " For the errors of definitions multiply themselves...from which proceed all false and senseless tenets." " Natural sense and imagination are not subject to absurdity. Nature itself cannot err ; and as men...

...since the days of Bacon have dwelt upon the importance of true conceptions. Thus Hobbes says — " In the right definition of names lies the first use...from which proceed all false and senseless tenets." And again — " Every man who aspires to true knowledge should examine the definitions of former authors,...

...window, 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 tenaelesse tenets, which make those men that...

...flutter at the false light of a glass window, lor want of wit to consider which way they came in. So that in the right definition of names lies the first use of speech, which is th« acquisition of science, and in wrong or no definitions lies the first abuse ; from which proceed...