Galileo Galilei: Names and attributes must be accommodated to the essence of things, and not the essence to the names, since things come

Names and attributes must be accommodated to the essence of things, and not the  — Galileo Galilei

Names and attributes must be accommodated to the essence of things, and not the essence to the names, since things come first and names afterwards.

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