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Seite ix
... common weal to be among those duties that are of public right , open to all alike , even as the waters and the air , I therefore asked myself what could most advantage mankind , and for the performance of what tasks I seemed to be ...
... common weal to be among those duties that are of public right , open to all alike , even as the waters and the air , I therefore asked myself what could most advantage mankind , and for the performance of what tasks I seemed to be ...
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... common to all the special sciences . It is a mistake , according to Bacon , to limit such an inquiry to mere logic , because " the truth of being and the truth of knowing are one . " That is to say , the distinctions and forms of ...
... common to all the special sciences . It is a mistake , according to Bacon , to limit such an inquiry to mere logic , because " the truth of being and the truth of knowing are one . " That is to say , the distinctions and forms of ...
Seite xxiii
... common and of a higher stage . " Moreover , First Philosophy is the parent from which the other branches of philosophy are derived . These branches are Divine Philosophy , Natural Philosophy comprising Physics and Metaphysics , and ...
... common and of a higher stage . " Moreover , First Philosophy is the parent from which the other branches of philosophy are derived . These branches are Divine Philosophy , Natural Philosophy comprising Physics and Metaphysics , and ...
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... common to all the sciences . Thus it is seen that metaphysics as conceived by Aristotle comprises three distinct types of inquiry . Considering the influence of Aristotle upon subsequent thought it is natural that this confusion should ...
... common to all the sciences . Thus it is seen that metaphysics as conceived by Aristotle comprises three distinct types of inquiry . Considering the influence of Aristotle upon subsequent thought it is natural that this confusion should ...
Seite xxx
... common logic , which governs by the syllogism , extends not only to natural but to all sciences ; so does mine also , which proceeds by induction , embrace every- thing . " 3 The conception of the modifiability of human nature and of ...
... common logic , which governs by the syllogism , extends not only to natural but to all sciences ; so does mine also , which proceeds by induction , embrace every- thing . " 3 The conception of the modifiability of human nature and of ...
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Seite 80 - Faithful are the wounds of a friend ; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.
Seite xix - But the greatest error of all the rest is the mistaking or misplacing of the last or furthest end of knowledge. For men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes upon a natural curiosity and inquisitive appetite; sometimes to entertain their minds with variety and delight; sometimes for ornament and reputation; and sometimes to enable them to victory of wit and contradiction; and most times for lucre and profession...
Seite xix - The end of our Foundation is the knowledge of causes and secret motions of things, and the enlarging of the bounds of human empire, to the effecting of all things possible.
Seite 93 - But the images of men's wits and knowledges remain in books, exempted from the wrong of time and capable of perpetual renovation.
Seite 237 - A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.
Seite 96 - OF FRANCIS BACON OF THE PROFICIENCE AND ADVANCEMENT OF LEARNING DIVINE AND HUMAN.
Seite xxxviii - Men sought truth in their own little worlds, and not in the great and common world'; for they disdain to spell and so by degrees to read in the volume of God's works; and contrariwise by continual meditation and agitation of wit do urge and as it were inyocate their own spirits to divine and give oracles unto them, whereby they are deservedly deluded.
Seite 341 - But the bee takes a middle course, it gathers its material from the flowers of the garden and of the field, but transforms and digests it by a power of its own. Not unlike this is the true business of philosophy; for it neither relies solely or chiefly on the powers of the mind, nor does it take the matter which it gathers from natural history and mechanical experiments and lay it up in the memory whole, as it finds it; but lays it up in the understanding altered and digested.
Seite 89 - Great, after that he was used to great armies, and the great conquests of the spacious provinces in Asia, when he received letters out of Greece, of some fights and services there, which were commonly for a passage, or a fort, or some walled town at the most, he said, " It seemed to him, that he was advertised of the battle of the frogs and the mice, that the old tales went of.
Seite 283 - XIX There are and can be only two ways of searching into and discovering truth. The one flies from the senses and particulars to the most general axioms, and from these principles, the truth of which it takes for settled and immovable, proceeds to judgment and to the discovery of middle axioms.