Quote: nothing can be defined but by words too plain to admit a definition

Quotation

To explain, requires the use of terms less abstruse than that which is to be explained, and such terms cannot always be found; for as nothing can be proved but the supposing something intuitively known, and evident, without proof, so nothing can be defined but by the use of words too plain to admit a definition.   Google-1   Google-2

Published before 1923

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Quote: nothing can be proved but the supposing something intuitively known, and evident, without proof

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