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9. This learning very little benefits society.

10. But destroys the instruments of knowledge and com-
munication.

11. As useful as to confound the sound of the letters.

12. This art has perplexed religion and justice.

13. And ought not to pass for learning.

14. Fourthly, taking them for things.

15. Instance in matter.

16. This makes errors lasting.

17. Fifthly, setting them for what they cannot signify.

18. V. g. putting them for the real essences of substances.

19. Hence we think every change of our idea in substances,

not to change the species.

20. The cause of this abuse, a supposition of nature's working
always regularly.

21. This abuse contains two false suppositions.

22. Sixthly, a supposition that words have a certain and evi-

dent signification.

23. The ends of language: first, to convey our ideas.

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