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It would be impossible to do justice to a philosophical argument without departing from the common use of one word or another. To avoid the danger of misapprehension from that cause, I mean to explain the peculiar meanings which I

To do full justice to a philosophical argument while restricting oneself to the dialect of polite literature would, I take it, be quite impossible. But perhaps I shall avoid in this article some dangers of misapprehension due to ineluctable departures in the cases of a few words from the common usages of speech by the device of accurately defining, on its first occurrence, every peculiar meaning that I propose to attach to any word, and thereafter invariable capitalizing that word (as we say in America: that is printing it with a capital initial every time [it] comes to be employed in this peculiar sense, even if the usage presents us other peculiarity than that of being more definite than others give to a word, and thereafter to capitalize the word (as we say in America, that is to print it with a capital initial,) every time it is so used.