27. When not so used, the variation is to he explained.
But after all, the provision of words is so scanty in respect
to that infinite variety of thoughts, that men, wanting terms to suit their precise notions, will, notwithstanding their
utmost caution, be forced often to use the same word in somewhat different senses. And though in the
continuation of a discourse, or the pursuit of an argument, there can be hardly room to digress into a particular
definition, as often as a man varies the signification of any term; yet the import of the discourse will, for the most
part, if there be no designed fallacy, sufficiently lead candid and intelligent readers into the true meaning of it; but
where there is not sufficient to guide the reader, there it concerns the writer to explain his meaning, and show in
what sense he there uses that term.
