Thomas Hobbes — "And consequently, the knowledge of the consequences of words, is called SCIENCE.…"

And consequently, the knowledge of the consequences of words, is called SCIENCE. And though a man should now and then have the good fortune to get any thing by conjecture, without reasoning; yet because the event is uncertain, and may often happen to his disadvantage, it is not properly wisdom.
Thomas Hobbes — Thomas Hobbes Early Modern · Leviathan, social contract

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Leviathan, Chapter V

Date: 1651

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