7. Simple ideas, why undefinable.
This being premised, I say that the names of simple ideas, and those only, are
incapable of being defined. The reason whereof is this, That the several terms of a definition, signifying several
ideas, they can all together by no means represent an idea which has no composition at all: and therefore a
definition, which is properly nothing but the showing the meaning of one word by several others not signifying
each the same thing, can in the names of simple ideas have no place.
