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SECT. I. Law in general.
to understand him? about as well as Dr Brown's
facetious tho' story teller was understand, that who had
a windmill that use to lay its eggs and hatch
its young ones. This producing a sort of a
stare – "Ah!" says he, "but you are to know
"when I way a windmill, I mean a goose".
I fear many of our Author's windmills will
prove geese.
Terms a ad Definition – properties they it should have
A Definition should ought at to be composed of terms. The terms of are employ'd in a definition should
have a meaning in the head mind of him who
uses them: they should that meaning should be such
as may be made visible to those whom they are addressed to: it should
be more simple in its conception easy to apprehend than that of
the term to be defined they are made use of to define: it should be the same
at one time as another: it should be true of one
as well as another of the things characterized
by the term to be defined: it should be such
as contributes may contribute to distinguish the thing defined
from other things it they may be in danger of being
confounded with. I doubt much how this
NOTE.
logical reader may make an exception to this rule with respect of
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