Advancement of Learning and Novum Organum, Volumen18Colonial Press, 1899 - 476 páginas |
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... axiom , as the sticks of the fagot , one by one , you may quarrel with them , and bend them , and break them at pleasure : whence , as it was said of Seneca , that he " weakened the weight of things by trivial expression , " b we may ...
... axiom , as the sticks of the fagot , one by one , you may quarrel with them , and bend them , and break them at pleasure : whence , as it was said of Seneca , that he " weakened the weight of things by trivial expression , " b we may ...
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... , but- I. to correct the depravity of axioms and opinions , founded upon common and familiar examples ; and 2. to show the wonders of nature , which give the shortest passage to the wonders ADVANCEMENT OF LEARNING 47.
... , but- I. to correct the depravity of axioms and opinions , founded upon common and familiar examples ; and 2. to show the wonders of nature , which give the shortest passage to the wonders ADVANCEMENT OF LEARNING 47.
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... axioms , than has hitherto appeared . For as a man's temper is never well known until he is crossed ; in like manner the turns and changes of nature cannot appear so fully , when she is left at her liberty , as in the trials and ...
... axioms , than has hitherto appeared . For as a man's temper is never well known until he is crossed ; in like manner the turns and changes of nature cannot appear so fully , when she is left at her liberty , as in the trials and ...
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... Axioms of this kind are numerous ; for example , if equals be added to unequals , the wholes will be unequal . This ... axiom in mathematics , and , at the same time , so serviceable in logic as to be the foundation of syllogism.a Nature ...
... Axioms of this kind are numerous ; for example , if equals be added to unequals , the wholes will be unequal . This ... axiom in mathematics , and , at the same time , so serviceable in logic as to be the foundation of syllogism.a Nature ...
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... axioms an infinite number might be collected ; and thus the celebrated Persian magic was , in effect , no more than a notation of the correspondence in the structure and fabric of things natural and civil . Nor let any one understand ...
... axioms an infinite number might be collected ; and thus the celebrated Persian magic was , in effect , no more than a notation of the correspondence in the structure and fabric of things natural and civil . Nor let any one understand ...
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Página 38 - So that if the invention of the ship was thought so noble, which carrieth riches and commodities from place to place, and consociateth the most remote regions in participation of their fruits, how much more are letters to be magnified, which as ships pass through the vast seas of time, and make ages so distant to participate of the wisdom, illuminations, and inventions, the one of the other?
Página 202 - Superstition, without a veil, is a deformed thing; for as it addeth deformity to an ape to be so like a man, so the similitude of superstition to religion makes it the more deformed...
Página 5 - To conclude therefore, let no man, upon a weak conceit of sobriety or an ill-applied moderation, think or maintain that a man can search too far or be too well studied in the book of God's word or in the book of God's works; divinity or philosophy; but rather let men endeavour an endless progress or proficience in both...
Página 59 - For although they had knowledge of the antipodes, "Nosque ubi primus equis Oriens afflavit anhelis, Illic sera rubens accendit lumina Vesper...
Página 3 - And I gave my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I perceived that this also is vexation of spirit. For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.
Página 23 - But this is that which will indeed dignify and exalt knowledge, if contemplation and action may be more nearly and straitly conjoined and united together than they have been; a conjunction like unto that of the two highest planets, Saturn, the planet of rest and contemplation, and Jupiter, the planet of civil society and action...
Página 15 - Here therefore [is] the first distemper of learning, when men study words and not matter : whereof though I have represented an example of late times, yet it hath been and will be secundum majus et minus in all time.
Página 319 - The idols of the tribe are inherent in human nature and the very tribe or race of man ; for man's sense is falsely asserted to be the standard of things; on the contrary, all the perceptions both of the senses and the mind bear reference to man and not to the universe, and the human mind resembles those uneven mirrors which impart their own properties to different objects, from which rays are emitted and distort and disfigure them.
Página 405 - But things which are equal to the same are equal to one another || ; therefore CA is equal to CB ; wherefore CA,
Página 317 - There is no small difference between the idols of the human mind, and the ideas of the divine mind; that is to say, between certain idle dogmas, and the real stamp and impression of created objects, as they are found in nature.