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... human understanding creates itself labour , and makes not a judicious and con- venient use of such real helps as are within man's power , whence arise both a manifold ignorance of things , and innu- merable disadvantages , the ...
... human understanding creates itself labour , and makes not a judicious and con- venient use of such real helps as are within man's power , whence arise both a manifold ignorance of things , and innu- merable disadvantages , the ...
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... human mind . For it is better to commence a matter which may admit of some termination , than to be involved in perpetual exertion and anxiety about that which is interminable . And , indeed , the ways of contemplation nearly resemble ...
... human mind . For it is better to commence a matter which may admit of some termination , than to be involved in perpetual exertion and anxiety about that which is interminable . And , indeed , the ways of contemplation nearly resemble ...
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... HUMAN UNDERSTANDING , AND DIFFERENT HELPS BE OB- TAINED , IN ORDER THAT THE MIND MAY EXERCISE ITS JURISDIC- TION OVER THE NATURE OF THINGS . pose . IT appears to me that men know not either their acquire- ments or their powers , and ...
... HUMAN UNDERSTANDING , AND DIFFERENT HELPS BE OB- TAINED , IN ORDER THAT THE MIND MAY EXERCISE ITS JURISDIC- TION OVER THE NATURE OF THINGS . pose . IT appears to me that men know not either their acquire- ments or their powers , and ...
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... human wit . They are not , however , more modest in this than in the former instances , since they prefer framing an excuse of the common condition of men and things , to confessing their own defects . Besides , it is generally their ...
... human wit . They are not , however , more modest in this than in the former instances , since they prefer framing an excuse of the common condition of men and things , to confessing their own defects . Besides , it is generally their ...
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... human mind and understanding should be introduced . We , for our part at least , overcome by the eternal love of truth , have committed ourselves to uncertain , steep , and desert tracks , and trusting and relying on divine assistance ...
... human mind and understanding should be introduced . We , for our part at least , overcome by the eternal love of truth , have committed ourselves to uncertain , steep , and desert tracks , and trusting and relying on divine assistance ...
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Página 131 - But things which are equal to the same are equal to one another || ; therefore CA is equal to CB ; wherefore CA,
Página 25 - MAN, as the minister and interpreter of nature, does and understands as much, as his observations on the order of nature, either with regard to things or the mind, permit him, and neither knows nor is capable of more.
Página 26 - Even the effects already discovered are due to chance and experiment rather than to the sciences. For our present sciences are nothing more than peculiar arrangements of matters already discovered, and not methods for discovery or plans for new operations.
Página 32 - ... infinity in time past and in time to come can by no means hold; for it would thence follow that one infinity is greater than another, and that infinity is wasting away and tending to become finite. The like subtlety arises touching the infinite divisibility of lines, from the same inability of thought to stop.
Página 31 - Lastly, there are idols which have crept into men's minds from the various dogmas of peculiar systems of philosophy, and also from the perverted rules of demonstration, and these we denominate idols of the theatre. For we regard all the systems of philosophy hitherto received or imagined, as so many plays brought out and performed, creating fictitious and theatrical worlds. Nor do we speak only of the present systems, or of the philosophy and sects of the ancients, since numerous other plays of a...
Página 62 - ... the shortness of life, the deception of the senses, and weakness of the judgment. They think, therefore, that in the revolutions of ages and of the world there are certain floods and ebbs of the sciences, and that they grow and flourish at one...
Página 83 - It is the glory of God to conceal a thing : but the honour of kings is to search out a matter.
Página 364 - Hope is the most beneficial of all the affections, and doth much to the prolongation of life, if it be not too often frustrated, but entertaineth the fancy with an expectation of good ; therefore they which fix and propound to themselves some end, as the mark and scope of their life, and continually and by degrees go forward in the same, are, for the most part, long-lived ; insomuch that when they are come to the top of their hope, and can go no higher therein, they commonly droop, and live not long...
Página 35 - For men imagine that their reason governs words, whilst, in fact, words react upon the understanding ; and this has rendered philosophy and the sciences sophistical and inactive.
Página 27 - ... proceeds to judgment and to the discovery of middle axioms. And this way is now in fashion. The other derives axioms from the senses and particulars, rising by a gradual and unbroken ascent, so that it arrives at the most general...