6. Addicted to wrangling about sounds.
Let us look into the books of controversy of any kind, there we shall see
that the effect of obscure, unsteady, or equivocal terms is nothing but noise and wrangling about sounds, without
convincing or bettering a man's understanding. For if the idea be not agreed on, betwixt the speaker and hearer,
for which the words stand, the argument is not about things, but names. As often as such a word whose
signification is not ascertained betwixt them, comes in use, their understandings have no other object wherein they
agree, but barely the sound; the things that they think on at that time, as expressed by that word, being quite
different.
