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A Definition Is Nothing Else But An Explication Of The Meaning Of A Word, By Words Whose Meaning Is Already Known. Hence It Is Evident That Every Word Cannot Be Defined; For The Definition Must Consist Of Words; And There Could Be No Definition, If There Were Not Words Previously Understood Without Definition.

We Find Sects And Parties In Most Branches Of Science; And Disputes Which Are Carried On From Age To Age, Without Being Brought To An Issue. Sophistry Has Been More Effectually Excluded From Mathematics And Natural Philosophy Than From Other Sciences. In Mathematics It Had No Place From The Beginning; Mathematicians Having Had The Wisdom To Define Accurately The Terms They Use, And To Lay Down, As Axioms, The First Principles On Which Their Reasoning Is Grounded. Accordingly, We Find No Parties Among Mathematicians, And Hardly Any Disputes.

It Appears Evident, Therefore, That Those Actions Only Can Truly Be Called Virtuous, And Deserving Of Moral Approbation, Which The Agent Believed To Be Right, And To Which He Was Influenced, More Or Less, By That Belief.

In Every Case, We Ought To Act That Part Towards Another, Which We Would Judge To Be Right In Him To Act Toward Us, If We Were In His Circumstances And He In Ours; Or More Generally - What We Approve In Others, That We Ought To Practise In Like Circumstances, What We Condemn In Others We Ought Not To Do.

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