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Books, like conversation, rarely give us any precise ideas: nothing is so common as to read and converse unprofitably. We must here repeat what Locke has so strongly urged—Define your terms.
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[http://www.gutenberg.org/files/35621/35621-h/35621-h.htm "Abuse of Words"] (1764) | Cf. Locke: "The names of simple ideas are not capable of any definition; the names of all complex ideas are. It has not, that I know, been yet observed by anybody what wo

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