Analogy and Equivocation in Hobbes

Philosophy 37 (142):326 - 335 (1962)
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The failures of a philosophic system are often a good deal more revealing than its successes, for such failures test its strength and mark the limits of its endurance. Yet if these failures disclose any uniform pattern they are not only revealing but instructive and can be turned to good account

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