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concerned the composition may be said to regard
the stile: in as far as the disposition of entire
paragraphs ar is concerned, it may be
said to regard the method. Let us begin with
what regards the stile.

§ 2. Choice of words
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Whether every word is expressive of an idea
The signification annexed to the word term idea
with relation to the term word is not perfectly well settled: whether It seems is not to
be yet settled whether every word term that is significant
has an idea belonging to it, or not. There
It certainly is not every word that has an image
belonging to it; that is sufficient of itself to raise
an image in the mind: but so long as a word it is
admitted to have some significance, there it seems
as if no inconvenience would result from saying
that it is expressive of an idea. At any rate
this might be said of the word expression term: Since
an expression a term is the sign of an idea.

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Ways in which a term may be improper
An idea then is given: the business is to
express it: a term is chosen for that purpose. If
this term is improper it must be on one or other
of three five accounts. 1. because it expresses no idea
at all. 2. because it expresses an idea which
co-incides <add>means</add>

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co-incides in no point with that in question. 1. No sense
2.
2.Sense improper
3.
because it expresses an idea which co-incides
with a part of that in question, and nothing
more. 4. because it expresses an idea which
coincides with the whole or a part of the idea
in question, and at the same time with the
whole or a part of another idea. [+] [+] 5. because it presents two ideas the proper and an improper one at the same time. 5 In the first
case it may be said to be unintelligible: in
the 2d case inapposite: in the 3d case, inadequate: in the 4th case ambiguous in the 4th case inapposite. <add>too extensive.</add> or equivocal.

Objectivity and perspicuousness what
Unintelligibility when considered as subsisting
only with relation to only to certain particular persons, or
only for a particular term so as not to be absolutely
invincible, is stiled obscurity. and the quality
opposed to it, perspicuousness or prespicuity.
Obscurity

It is seldom that a single term made use of in a
law is absol utterly unintelligible: and unmeaning scarcely possible
that it should be so at the first enactment: for if
unintelligible to every body else it must at any
rate have been intelligible presented some meaning to him
who made use of it. The most common case is
for it to have lost it's meaning by age: in which
case it is said to have become antiquated or obsolete.

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Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	4
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