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My habit of visiting bookshops has led to my discovering this morning an example of the major work by the philosopher Helvetius, De l’ esprit [Concerning the mind]. In chapter IV, “The abuse of words”, I found this statement: “Descartes had already said, before Locke, that peripatetic scholars who hid behind the obscurities of words are very similar to blind men, who, in order to make their fight more equal, pull a sighted man into a dark cave. If a man knows,” he said “how to give precise ideas to the words that he uses, then his triumph is assured.” This is the prime virtue of this discipline that we study and is the cause of the shining example that it presents. |
