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“Definitions are rules for the translation of one language into another.” Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
“The Light of humane minds is Perspicuous Words, but by exact definitions first snuffed, and purged from ambiguity; Reason is the Pace; Encrease of Science, the Way; and the Benefit of mankind, the End.” Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan

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