For he that shall well consider the errors and obscurity, the mistakes and confusion, that are spread in the world by an ill use of words, will find some reason to doubt whether language, as it has been employed, has contributed more to the improvement... An Introductory Logic - Page 72by James Edwin Creighton - 1909 - 520 pagesFull view - About this book
| John Locke - Philosophy - 1722 - 640 pages
...contributed c£"fe efsreft more to the improvement or hindrance of Knowledg amongft Mankind. How many arc there, that when they would think on things, fix their Thoughts only Vol. I- " H ha " oa on Words, efpecially when they would apply their Minds to moral matters ? And who... | |
| 1741 - 408 pages
...fion, that are fpread in the World by an ill Ufe of ' Words, will find fome Reafon to doubt, whether ' Language, as it has been employed, has contributed ' more to the Improvement or Hindrance of Know« ledge amongft Mankind.' I am inclined to believe, that if we could, by a Kind of Chemical Operation,... | |
| Freemasonry - 1794 - 518 pages
...confusion that are spread "in the world by an ill use of words, will find some reason to doubt " whether language, as it has been employed, has contributed...improvement or hindrance of knowledge amongst mankind." I am inclined to believe, that if we could by a kind of chemical operation separate those parts of... | |
| John Locke - Knowledge, Theory of - 1796 - 554 pages
...that are fpread in the world by an ff error*, ill ufe of words, will find fome reafon to doubt whether language, as it has been employed, has contributed more to the improvement or hindrance of knowledge amongft mankind. How many are there that, when they would think on things, fix thejr thoughts only... | |
| John Locke - 1801 - 398 pages
...are spread in the world by an Sj; eal: cause ill use or words, will find some reason to doubt whether language, as it has been employed, has contributed...about little more than sounds, whilst the ideas they annexed to them are very confused and very unsteady, or perhaps none at all; who can wonder, I say,... | |
| John Locke - 1801 - 950 pages
...confufion, that ztefpread in ike world by an ill ufe of -words, will find forne realbn to doubt whether language, as it has been employed, has contributed more to the improvement or hinclerance of knowledge amongft mankind. How many ate there, that when they would think on things,... | |
| John Locke - Knowledge, Theory of - 1805 - 520 pages
...spread in the world by an great ca»se ill use of words, will find some reason to oferrorsdoubt whether language, as it has been employed, has contributed...about little more than sounds, whilst the ideas they annexed to them are very confused and very unsteady, or perhaps none at all ; who can wonder, I say,... | |
| Robert Eden Scott - Cognition - 1805 - 524 pages
...confufion, that are fpread * in the world by an ill ufe of words, will find * fome reafon to doubt whether language, as * it has been employed, has contributed more * to the improvement or hinderance of know* ledge in the world. ' This judicious philofopher has dedicated a whole book of... | |
| John Locke - Books and reading - 1806 - 394 pages
...as it has been employed, has contributed more to the improvement or hindrance of knowledge amongft mankind. How many are there, that when they would...think. on' things, fix their thoughts only on words, efpecially when they would apply their minds to moral matters ? And who then can wonder, if the re^... | |
| 1811 - 444 pages
...and confusion, that is spread in the world by an ill use of words, will find reason to doubt, whether language, as it has been employed, has contributed more to the improvement or hindrance of knowledge among mankind." Mr. Locke, like Cicero, here insinuates his doubt, without resolving it, although he... | |
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