Thomas Hobbes
English philosopher and political theorist
WORDS ABOUT WORDS
For words are wise men’s counters — they do but reckon by them; but they are the money of fools.
—Thomas Hobbes, English philosopher and political theorist, Leviathan, 1651
Posted on April 25, 2000 at 3:44 PM
WORDS ABOUT WORDS
Seeing then that truth consisteth in the right ordering of names in our affirmations, a man that seeketh 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 bird in lime twigs—the more he struggles the more belimed.
—Thomas Hobbes, English philosopher and political theorist, Leviathan, 1651
Posted on March 16, 2000 at 6:12 AM
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