| John Locke - 1801 - 398 Seiten
...certainty. And it must be great want of ingenuity (to say no worse of it) to refuse to do it: since a definition is the only way whereby the precise meaning of moral words can be known ; and yet a way whereby their meaning may be known certainly, and without leaving any room for any... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1802 - 600 Seiten
...used in the same sense, he earnestly recommends the use of definitions. ' A definition/ says he, ' is the only way whereby the precise meaning of moral words can be known.' He therefore accuses those of great negligence who discourse of moral things with the least obscurity... | |
| John Locke - 1805 - 520 Seiten
...certainty. And it must be great want of ingenuity (to say no worse of it) to refuse to do it : since a definition is the only way whereby the precise meaning of moral words can be known ; and yet a way whereby their meaning may be known certainly, and without leaving any room for any... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 384 Seiten
...used ir. the same sense, he earnestly recommends the use of definitions. ' A definition,' saye he, < is the only way whereby the precise meaning of moral words can be known. He therefore accuses those of great negligence who discourse of moral things with the least obscurity... | |
| Levi Hedge - 1816 - 220 Seiten
...covered; in which consists perfect « knowledge." He adds, " definition * Book III. ch. 11, sect. 16. " is the only way whereby the precise " meaning of moral words can. be " known; and yet a way, whereby "their meaning may be known cer" tuinly, and without leaving any K room for... | |
| British essayists - 1819 - 376 Seiten
...used in the same sense, he earnestly recommends the use of definitions. ' A definition,, says he, ' is the only way whereby the precise meaning of moral words can be known., He therefore accuses those of great negligence who discourse of moral things with the least obscurity... | |
| James Ferguson - 1819 - 378 Seiten
...used in the same sense, he earnestly recommends the use of definitions. ' A definition,' says he, ' is the only way whereby the precise meaning of moral words can be known.' He therefore accuses those of great negligence who discourse of moral things with the least obscurity... | |
| John Locke - 1823 - 426 Seiten
...certainty. And it must be great want of ingenuity (to say no worse of it) to refuse to do it: since a definition is the only way whereby the precise meaning of moral words can be known ; and yet a way whereby their meaning may be known certainly, and without leaving any room for any... | |
| British essayists - 1823 - 806 Seiten
...used in the same sense, he earnestly recommends the use of definitions. ' A definition,' says he, ' is the only way whereby the precise meaning of moral words can be known. He therefore accuses those of great negligence who discourse of moral things with the least obscurity... | |
| Lionel Thomas Berguer - 1823 - 682 Seiten
...used in the same sense, he earnestly recommends the use of definitions. ' A definition,' says he, ' is the only way whereby the precise meaning of moral words can be known.' He therefore accuses those of great negligence who discourse of moral things with the least obscurity... | |
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