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“He that uses words without any clear and steady meaning, what does he but lead himself and others into errors? And he that designedly does it, ought to be looked on as an enemy to truth and knowledge.”

— John Locke

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Wikiquote: John Locke
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Context

Book III, Ch. 11, sec. 5

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Locke, John. (n.d.). Wikiquote: John Locke. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Locke

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