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  • Seeing then that truth consisteth in the right ordering of names in our affirmations, a man that seeketh precise truth, had need to remember what every name he uses stands for; and to place it accordingly; or else he will find himself entangled in words, as a bird in lime-twigs; the more he struggles, the more belimed.

    Men  
    Thomas Hobbes (2008). “Leviathan”, p.36, Simon and Schuster
  • Hell is Truth Seen Too Late.

    Quoted by Johnson, Enemies of Society (1977). Johnson's corollary is "Survival is falsehood detected in time."
  • True and false are attributes of speech not of things. And where speech is not, there is neither truth nor falsehood. Error theremay be, as when we expect that which shall not be; or suspect what has not been: but in neither case can a man be charged with untruth.

    Men  
    Leviathan pt. 1, ch. 4 (1651)
  • True and False are attributes of speech, not of things. And where speech is not, there is neither Truth nor Falsehood.

    Leviathan pt. 1, ch. 4 (1651)
  • The errors of definitions multiply themselves according as the reckoning proceeds; and lead men into absurdities, which at last they see but cannot avoid, without reckoning anew from the beginning.

    Thomas Hobbes (2016). “The Essential Leviathan: A Modernized Edition”, p.20, Hackett Publishing
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