Novum Organum: Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of NatureG. Routledge, 1893 - 245 páginas |
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... ages should unite and combine and transmit their labours , no great progress will be made in Learning by Anticipations ; because the radical errors , and those which occur in the first process of the mind , are not cured by the ...
... ages should unite and combine and transmit their labours , no great progress will be made in Learning by Anticipations ; because the radical errors , and those which occur in the first process of the mind , are not cured by the ...
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... ages ; or , fourthly , to the extent or narrowness of the subject . In general he who contemplates Nature should suspect what- ever particularly takes and fixes his Understanding , and should use so much the more caution to preserve it ...
... ages ; or , fourthly , to the extent or narrowness of the subject . In general he who contemplates Nature should suspect what- ever particularly takes and fixes his Understanding , and should use so much the more caution to preserve it ...
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... ages in religious and Theological considerations , and Civil Govern- ments ( especially Monarchies ) had been adverse to novelties of that nature even in theory ( so that men must apply to them with some risk and injury to their own ...
... ages in religious and Theological considerations , and Civil Govern- ments ( especially Monarchies ) had been adverse to novelties of that nature even in theory ( so that men must apply to them with some risk and injury to their own ...
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... age , unless perhaps in the Philosophy of Gilbert . We could not however neglect to caution others It is thus the Vulcanists and Neptunians have framed their oppo- site theories in geology . Phrenology is a modern instance of hasty ...
... age , unless perhaps in the Philosophy of Gilbert . We could not however neglect to caution others It is thus the Vulcanists and Neptunians have framed their oppo- site theories in geology . Phrenology is a modern instance of hasty ...
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... Age , than the former from that of the Country and Nation . For in that age the knowledge both of Time and of the World was confined and meagre , which is one of the worst evils for those who rely on Experience . They had not a thousand ...
... Age , than the former from that of the Country and Nation . For in that age the knowledge both of Time and of the World was confined and meagre , which is one of the worst evils for those who rely on Experience . They had not a thousand ...
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Novum Organum: Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature Francis Bacon Vista completa - 1850 |
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Términos y frases comunes
Action admit affirmative Ancients Animals Aphorism appears Aristotle Axioms Burning Glass causes CHARLOTTE BRONTË Cold common compressed condensed confined consider contrary Coruscations deduced degree of Heat Democritus derived diligently discovered discovery distance Diurnal Motion Earth easily effect escape excited exhibit Expansion Experiment Fire Flame Form of Heat former Glass greater Heavenly Bodies Hence human Understanding Idols Ignited Induction inquiry Interpretation of Nature Invention investigation Iron labour Lastly latent less let the Required Leucippus light Liquids Magnet mankind mative matter means Metals method Mind Motion namely Natural Philosophy nega NOVUM ORGANUM objects observed operation particular Plato Poetical Predominance Prerogative Instances produced Putrefaction Quantity Quicksilver rank of Prerogative rays readily regard Reject rendered Required Nature Sciences Senses separated similar solid species spirits of wine substances Syllogism Tangible term things tion tive touch true violent warm Water weight whilst wont to call
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Página 145 - But things which are equal to the same are equal to one another || ; therefore CA is equal to CB ; wherefore CA,
Página 18 - ... 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 11 - ... 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...
Página 17 - The human understanding, from its peculiar nature, easily supposes a greater degree of order and equality in things than it really finds ; and although many things in nature be sui generis, and most irregular, will yet invent parallels and conjugates, and relatives where no such thing is.
Página 10 - 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 12 - There is a great difference between the Idols of the human mind and the Ideas of the divine. That is to say, between certain empty dogmas, and the true signatures and marks set upon the works of creation as they are found in nature.
Página 46 - The opinion which men cherish of antiquity is altogether idle, and scarcely accords with the term. For the old age and increasing years of the world should in reality be considered as antiquity, and this is rather the character of our own times than of the less advanced age of the world in those of the ancients. For the latter, with respect to ourselves, are ancient and elder, with respect to the world modern and younger.
Página 15 - 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...
Página 15 - The formation of notions and axioms on the foundation of true induction is the only fitting remedy by which we can ward off and expel these idols. It is, however, of great service...
Página 147 - The passage from the miraeles of nature to those of art is easy; for if nature be once seized in her variations, and the cause be manifest, it will be easy to lead her by art to such deviation as she was at first led to by chance; and not only to that but others, since deviations on the one side lead and open the way to others in every direction.