the want whereof is (as I am apt to think) not seldom the occasion of great wrangling and obscurity in men's discourses, whilst some demand definitions of terms that cannot be defined; and others think they ought not to rest satisfied in an explication made by a more general word, and its restriction, (or to speak in terms of art, by a genus and difference,) when, even after such definition, made according to rule, those who hear it have often no more a clear conception of the meaning of the word than they had before.
eta hutsune horixe izan dela uste dut ez gutxitan gizakien diskurtsoetan nahasketa eta iluntasun handiaren iturri, batzuek defini ezin daitezkeen terminoen definizioa eskatzen dutelako eta beste batzuek uste dutelako ez dutela konforme geratu behar hitz orokorragoaren eta beronen murrizketaren bidez (edo logikako berbaz esateko, generoaren eta diferentziaren bidez) emandako azalpenarekin, arauzkotasunez egindako definizio hori entzun ondoren entzuleek maiz hitz horretaz lehen zutena baino ideia argiagorik ez dute eta.