26. The ideas of liberty and volition must be defined.
To avoid these and the like absurdities, nothing can be of
greater use than to establish in our minds determined ideas of the things under consideration. If the ideas of liberty
and volition were well fixed in our understandings, and carried along with us in our minds, as they ought, through
all the questions that are raised about them, I suppose a great part of the difficulties that perplex men's thoughts,
and entangle their understandings, would be much easier resolved; and we should perceive where the confused
signification of terms, or where the nature of the thing caused the obscurity.
