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these helps, these "signs" are, neither more nor less than— the words themselves.
and these onemake one of those signs which he pronounces
to be natural and probable. If this
be something different from what is intelligible,
I cannot help it.

Be this as it may; under the article title of Words
he gives us three rules: in themselves sufficiently
intelligible enough indeed for which any thing they are good for, had they been better introduced.

for any use there is
in them.

First Rule of Interpretation
under
his first head.

The first is, that "Words are generally to be understood
"in their usual and most known signification;
"not so much regarding the propriety of grammar,
"as their general and popular use". The upshot
of this rule is, that words are generally to be understood in
that sense that people would be apt to understand
them in, were there no rule given about the matter. Now
against the propriety of this certainly, nothing certainly can
be objected: but what use there was for making a
rule to bid us do what by the supposition we should
do without bidding, is what I must shall leave to be considered.

Example.

The example he gives us under this rule is that of
a "Law mentioned by Puffendorf, which forbad a layman
"to lay hands on a Priest": and which "was
"adjudged to extend to him, who had hurt a Priest
"with a weapon". This judgement, in our Author's
opinion, I suppose, was proper: a proper one: "to hurt" by any

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