Stemming from this reduction of reason to a mere tool is the complete non-existence of truth, forms, and principles in Hobbes’ philosophy, the use and end of reason, is not the finding of the summe and truth of one, or a few consequences remote from the first definitions, and settled significations of name; but to begin at these; and proceed from one consequence to another. For there can be no certainity of the last Conclusion (Hobbes
Stemming from this reduction of reason to a mere tool is the complete non-existence of truth, forms, and principles in Hobbes’ philosophy, the use and end of reason, is not the finding of the summe and truth of one, or a few consequences remote from the first definitions, and settled significations of name; but to begin at these; and proceed from one consequence to another. For there can be no certainity of the last Conclusion (Hobbes