1604. But it is an abuse [of philosophy] when the philosophers are engrossed in terminology and dispute about terms without coming to agreement. By this every idea of the subject itself perishes, and the human comprehension becomes so limited that they end up knowing nothing but terms. Consequently, when they want to comprehend the matters by their own terminology, then they only heap up those terms, thereby obscuring the matter and so blinding their native discernment that they cannot understand anything. Therefore, the uneducated person has much broader ideas and more readily sees what is true than the philosopher, who remains in his own mud, like a swine-this being the reason why a swine or wild boar was portrayed to me-and becomes a wild animal in the forests. For he wanders* like a wild animal in truths, which he tears to pieces, and kills. * The Latin for this word is errat, which also means "errs."