...claim—that is, the Lockean doctrine that only simple ideas are indefinable. Instead, he writes only that "Complex ideas may, perhaps, be well known by definition, which is nothing but an enumeration of those parts or simple ideas, that compose them" (EHU $49). Elsewhere, he asserts that mathematicians...

...claim — ie, the Lockean doctrine that only simple ideas are indefinable. Instead, he writes only that "Complex ideas may, perhaps, be well known by definition, which is nothing but an enumeration of those parts or simple ideas, that compose them" [EHU 62; emphasis added]. Elsewhere, he asserts that...

...proper application of it men may reach a greater clearness and precision in philosophical reasonings than what they have hitherto been able to attain....definition, which is nothing but an enumeration of those parts or simple ideas that compose them. But when we have pushed up definitions to the most simple...

...proper application of it, men may reach a greater clearness and precision in philosophical reasonings, than what they have hitherto been able to attain....definition, which is nothing but an enumeration of those parts or simple ideas, that compose them. But when we have pushed up definitions to the most...

...may reach a greater clearness and precision in philosophical reasonings than what they have up to now no moral turpitude at all, as proceeding from so good a cause, or if they those parts or simple ideas that compose them. But when we have pushed up definitions to the most simple...

...proper application of it, men may reach a greater clearness and precision in philosophical reasonings, than what they have hitherto been able to attain....definition, which is nothing but an enumeration of those parts or simple ideas, that compose them. But when we have pushed up definitions to the most...