One cannot explain words without making incursions into the sciences themselves, as is evident from dictionaries; and, conversely, one cannot present a science without at the same time defining its terms.


'Of the Division of the Sciences' (1765), Book 4, Chapter 21, in New Essays on Human Understanding, trans. and ed. Peter Remnant (1981)

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Quotes

One cannot explain words without making incursions into the sciences themselves, as is evident from dictionaries; and, conversely, one cannot present ...

One cannot explain words without making incursions into the sciences themselves, as is evident from dictionaries; and, conversely, one cannot present ...

One cannot explain words without making incursions into the sciences themselves, as is evident from dictionaries; and, conversely, one cannot present ...

One cannot explain words without making incursions into the sciences themselves, as is evident from dictionaries; and, conversely, one cannot present ...