Thomas Hobbes:

And consequently, the knowledge of the consequences of words, is called SCIENCE. And though a man should now and then have the good fortune to get any thing by conjecture, without reasoning; yet because the event is uncertain, and may often happen to his disadvantage, it is not properly wisdom.

— Thomas Hobbes Early Modern

Leviathan, social contract

Context

Leviathan, Chapter V

Date / Period

1651

Source

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3207/3207-h/3207-h.htm#link2H_4_0008

Verification

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Explanation

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Method

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