ABSTRACT

When we conceive the same things differently, we can hardly avoid different naming of them. For though the nature of what we conceive be the same, yet the diversity of our reception of it, in respect of different constitutions of the body, and prejudice of opinions, gives everything a tincture of our different passions. And therefore in reasoning a man must take heed of words; which beside the signification of what we imagine their nature, have significance also of the nature, disposition and interests of the speaker.