| James Gilchrist - 1816 - 296 pagine
...true philosopher, by any bigoted clamour of blind zealots :—" Seeing then, that truth, (says Hobbes) consisteth in the right ordering of names in our affirmations,...precise truth had need to remember what every name he uses stands for, and to place it accordingly ; else he will find himself entangled in words, as a bird... | |
| Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 810 pagine
...be, or suspect what has not been : but in neither case can a man be charged with untruth. Seeing then that truth consisteth in the right ordering of names...precise truth had need to remember what every name he uses stands for, and to place it accordingly, else he will find himself entangled in words as a bird... | |
| Alfred Lyall - 1830 - 682 pagine
...repeatedly in the course of his work*. * See Appendix, Note A. II. § 1. " SEEING," says Mr. Hobbes, " that truth consisteth in the right ordering of names...he useth stands for, and to place it accordingly, else he will find himself entangled in words, as a bird in lime twigs; the more he struggles, the more... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1836 - 538 pagine
...suspect what has not been : but in neither case can a man be charged with untruth. " Seeing, then, that truth consisteth in the right ordering of names...precise truth had need to remember what every name he uses stands for, and to place it accordingly : or else he will find himself entangled in words, as... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1836 - 526 pagine
...suspect what has not been : but in neither case can a man be charged with untruth. " Seeing, then, that truth consisteth in the right ordering of names...precise truth had need to remember what every name he uses stands for, and to place it accordingly : or else he will find himself entangled in words, as... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1836 - 372 pagine
...suspect what has not been ; but in neither case can a man be charged with untruth. " Seeing, then, that truth consisteth in the right ordering of names...precise truth had need to remember What every name he uses stands for, and to place it accordingly : or else he will find himself entangled in words, as... | |
| Thomas Hobbes - 1839 - 744 pagine
...untruth. Seeing then that truth consisteth in the right Necessity of •t • f • a> ? definitions. ordering of names in our affirmations, a man that...precise truth had need to remember what every name he uses stands for, and to place it accordingly, or else he will find himself entangled in words, as a... | |
| Thomas Hobbes - 1839 - 766 pagine
...untruth. /Seeing then that truth consisteth in the right Necessity of ' j • £ • a* JP ^ definitions. ordering of names in our affirmations, a man that seeketh precise truth had need to remember what v every name he uses stands for, and to place it accordingly, or else he will find himself entangled... | |
| Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 1839 - 812 pagine
...be, or suspect what has not been : but in neither case can a man be charged with untruth. Seeing then that truth consisteth in the right ordering of names in our affirmations, a man that scekctli precise truth had need to remember what every name he uses stands for, and to place it accordingly,... | |
| Henry Hallam - 1839 - 718 pagine
...speech is not, there is neither truth nor falsehood, though there may be error. Hence as truth consists in the right ordering of names in our affirmations, a man that seeks precise truth hath need to remember what every word he uses stands for and place it accordingly.... | |
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