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Generally speaking, then, one commonplace rule relates to the failure to frame the expression by means of terms that are prior and more intelligible: |
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Moreover, see if, while the term to be defined is used in relation to many things, he has failed to render it in relation to all of them; |
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Moreover, in a case where the term to be defined is used in relation to several things, see if he has rendered it as relative to the worse rather than to the better; |
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Again, if the thing in question be not placed in its own proper genus, one must examine it according to the elementary rules in regard to genera, as has been said before |
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Moreover, see if he uses language which transgresses the genera of the things he defines, defining, e |
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