 First, a requirement for geometrical definitions, which Hobbes stressed in multiple contexts, is that they must provide the causes of the things being defined. For example, Hobbes claimed that the definition of ‘line’ should be as follows: “a line is made by the motion of a point” (OL I.63). Likewise, a plane is made by the motion of a line. Perhaps Hobbes understood all of the laws of nature to be like this type of geometrical definition, but instead of the definition of something like ‘line’ they served as the definition of (and thus how to make) peace. That is, when following all of the laws of nature one could make peace just as by following the generative instructions contained in the definition of ‘line’ one could make a line.