John Locke Quote

A loose use of their words serves them [men] well enough in their ordinary discourses or affairs. But this is not sufficient for philosophical inquiries. Knowledge and reasoning require precise determinate ideas.


The Works of John Locke: In Three Volumes (Volume 1), Book Three, Of the Abuse of Words, 22 (p. 292)


A loose use of their words serves them [men] well enough in their ordinary discourses or affairs. But this is not sufficient for philosophical...

A loose use of their words serves them [men] well enough in their ordinary discourses or affairs. But this is not sufficient for philosophical...

A loose use of their words serves them [men] well enough in their ordinary discourses or affairs. But this is not sufficient for philosophical...

A loose use of their words serves them [men] well enough in their ordinary discourses or affairs. But this is not sufficient for philosophical...