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Of Man, Being The First Part Of Leviathan: Chapter VII: Of The Ends, Or Resolutions Of Discourse
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Chapter VII: Of The Ends, Or Resolutions Of Discourse
Of all "discourse," governed by desire of knowledge there is
at last an
"end", either by attaining or by giving over. And in the chain of
discourse,
wheresoever it be interrupted, there is an end for that time.
If the discourse be merely mental, it consisteth of thoughts
that the
thing will be, and will not be; or that it has been, and has not been,
alternately. So that wheresoever you break off the chain of a man'
s discourse,
you leave him a presumption of "it will be," or "it will not be,"
or "it has
been," or "has not been." All which is ...
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