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28 Apr 1815 Demand for
1. Purely Verbal
Chrest. Tab.II
That for this purpose changes amendments might would not require to be 5 They
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For this purpose, some
new words more expressive
than the old
would be required:
consequently, of these
definienda, definitions
made in to the stock of expressions afforded by ordinary
language seems scarcely to admitt of doubt: some
terms might require to be added, others substituted to
that part of the ordinary language which is applicable
to the purpose some terms might require to be added
others substituted. But it is inby the shape way of
definition that the whole of their business might be
despatched. In these definitions in so far as the word definend 5
But where the new
definiend is constantly
accompanied
by its definition, expressed
in ordinary
language, no such
perplexity is produced
as by new symbols
signs substituted to ordinary
language
had been already employed in different sources, the effect
object and effect of the operation would be to the import:
in so far as it were new, to give to it
for the first time an import applicable to the subject
In all these cases it would be in the first instance be
the definiend above would be the word which werewould be
foreign to the stock of the ordinary language: to the
ordinary language would belongmight and should all the words employed
in the explanation of it. For it is that where once
a word was in itself a new to and thence foreign to the
ordinary language had receivedthus explanation was in
ordinary language, it then without inconvenience
might be employed and of necessity would be employed
in the explanations given of other such new words.
But the perplexity thus introduced in comparison of
the perplexity into produced by the introduction of an
extensive system of new characters, the utmost perplexity that would
be produced by the introduction of new words supposing them
to be all of them in a moderate degree expressive, and at the
same time laid upon explained to view elucidated by explanations com
without immediately or ultimately into the matter of ordinary language would be
inconsiderable indeed:
especially if by the
number of them were
so , as to and of their being in the form of a Synoptic Table, spread under the eye altogether all together at one view
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