 | Frederic William Westaway - 1912 - 474 sider
..."Men take the words they find in use amongst their neighbours; and that they may not seem ignorant what they stand for, use them confidently, without...obtain this advantage, that, as in such discourses they seldom are in the right, so they are as seldom to be convinced that they are in the wrong."2 "All the... | |
 | Charles Clinton Peters - 1918 - 460 sider
...and uncertain notions annexed to them. Men take the words they find in use among their neighbors ; and, that they may not seem ignorant of what they...fixed meaning; whereby, besides the ease of it, they retain this advantage : that, as in such discourses they are seldom in the right, so they are seldom... | |
 | Ivor Armstrong Richards - 1926 - 324 sider
...POEM Men take the words they find in use among their neighbours, and that they may not seem ignorant what they stand for use them confidently without much...troubling their heads about a certain fixed meaning. ... it being all one to draw these men out of their mistakes, who have no settled notions, as to dispossess... | |
 | Charles Kay Ogden, Ivor Armstrong Richards - 1927 - 400 sider
...them. Men take the words they find in use amongst their neighbours, and that they may not seem ignorant what they stand for use them confidently without much...ease of it they obtain this advantage that as in such discourse they are seldom in the right so they are seldom to be convinced they are in the wrong, it... | |
 | John Locke - 1928 - 436 sider
...them. Men take the words they find in use amongst their neighbours; and that they may not seem ignorant what they stand for, use them confidently, without...obtain this advantage, that as in such discourses they seldom are in the right, so they are as seldom to be convinced that they are in the wrong; it being... | |
 | John W. Yolton - 1977 - 364 sider
...them. Men take the words they find in use amongst their neighbours; and that they may not seem ignorant what they stand for, use them confidently, without...obtain this advantage; that as in such discourses they seldom are in the right, so they are as seldom to be convinced that they are in the wrong; it being... | |
 | Terrence Gordon - 1994 - 596 sider
...them. Men take the words they find in use amongst their neighbours, and that they may not seem ignorant what they stand for use them confidently without much...ease of it they obtain this advantage that as in such discourse they are seldom in the right so they are seldom to be convinced they are in the wrong, it... | |
 | Gottfried Wilhelm Freiherr von Leibniz - 1996 - 528 sider
...confidently,1 without [giving them] a certain 341 fixed meaning[. And] as in such discourses they seldom are in the right, so they are as seldom to be convinced, that they are in the wrong '. Trying to extricate them from their mistakes is like trying to dispossess a vagabond.... | |
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Men take the words they find in use amongst their neighbours; and that they may not seem ignorant what they stand for, use them confidently, without much troubling their heads about a certain fixed meaning; whereby, besides the ease of it, they obtain... 
