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... reasons and ends , for which these were originally made , subsist no longer , it was thought super- fluous to continue such particularities , in a work of this general nature . " In the year 1810 the Novum Organum was translated into ...
... reasons and ends , for which these were originally made , subsist no longer , it was thought super- fluous to continue such particularities , in a work of this general nature . " In the year 1810 the Novum Organum was translated into ...
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... reasons , but designa- tions and indications of effects . Hence from a diversity of intention follows a diversity of consequences . For in the one an opponent is vanquished and constrained by argu- ment THE DISTRIBUTION OF THE WORK . 15.
... reasons , but designa- tions and indications of effects . Hence from a diversity of intention follows a diversity of consequences . For in the one an opponent is vanquished and constrained by argu- ment THE DISTRIBUTION OF THE WORK . 15.
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... reason . But when these have been gone through , and it has at last been clearly seen , what results are to be expected from the nature of things and the nature of the mind , we consider that we shall have prepared and adorned a nuptial ...
... reason . But when these have been gone through , and it has at last been clearly seen , what results are to be expected from the nature of things and the nature of the mind , we consider that we shall have prepared and adorned a nuptial ...
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... reason , how- ever , for any one to be alarmed at such suspense of judg- ment in our method of teaching , which does not assert ab- solutely that nothing can be known , but that nothing can be known without a determined order and method ...
... reason , how- ever , for any one to be alarmed at such suspense of judg- ment in our method of teaching , which does not assert ab- solutely that nothing can be known , but that nothing can be known without a determined order and method ...
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... reasons for it which are by no means contemptible . They have not , however , derived their opi- nion from true sources , and hurried on by their zeal , and some affectation , have certainly exceeded due moderation . But the more ...
... reasons for it which are by no means contemptible . They have not , however , derived their opi- nion from true sources , and hurried on by their zeal , and some affectation , have certainly exceeded due moderation . But the more ...
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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...