“The first cause of Absurd conclusions I ascribe to the want …”

“The first cause of Absurd conclusions I ascribe to the want of Method; in that they begin not their Ratiocination from Definitions; that is, from settled significations of their words: as if they could cast account, without knowing the value of the numerall words, one, two, and three.”

— Thomas Hobbes

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The First Part, Chapter 5, p. 20 (See also: Algorithms)

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