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A definition may be very exact, and yet go but a very little way towards informing us of the nature of the thing defined.

Edmund Burke
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Edmund Burke (1839). “The Works of Edmund Burke”, p.58
A definition may be very exact, and yet go but a very little way towards informing us of the nature of the thing defined.