 The human understanding is of its own nature prone to abstractions and gives a substance and reality to things which are fleeting. But to resolve nature into abstractions is less to our purpose than to dissect her into parts; as did the school of Democritus,...  Works of Francis Bacon - Página 83por Francis Bacon - 1863Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Francis Bacon - 1861 - 578 páginas
...touching the point in nature and the thing itself. LI. The human understanding is of its own nature prone to abstractions and gives a substance and reality...than to dissect her into parts ; as did the school of Dcmocritus, which went further into nature than the rest. Matter rather than forms should be the object... | |
 | 1905 - 958 páginas
...touching the point in nature and the thing itself. LI. The human understanding is of its own nature prone to abstractions, and gives a substance and reality...than to dissect her into parts ; as did the school of'Democritus, which went further into nature than the rest. Matter rather than forms should be the... | |
 | Sir Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller - 1909 - 608 páginas
...affections ' ; it depends on the senses, and they are ' dull, incompetent and deceptive' ; and it is 'prone to abstractions and gives a substance and reality to things which are fleeting.' The idols of the cave belong not to the race but to the individual. They take their rise in his peculiar... | |
 | Benjamin Rand - 1908 - 768 páginas
...touching the point in nature and the thing itself. LI The human understanding is of its own nature prone to abstractions and gives a substance and reality...which went further into nature than the rest. Matter ratherThan forms should be the object of our attention, its~cbnfigurations and changes of configuration,... | |
 | 1910 - 1110 páginas
...Thus the form of heat or the form of light is the same thing as the law of heat or the la* of light."1 "Matter rather than forms should be the object of...attention, its configurations and changes of configuration, jr,.{ simple action, and law of action or motion . for forms are figments 01 the human mind, unless... | |
 | William Ritchie Sorley - 1920 - 418 páginas
...affections"; it depends on the senses, and they are "dull, incompetent, and deceptive"; and it is "prone to abstractions and gives a substance and reality to things which are fleeting." The idols of the cave belong not to the race but to the individual. They take their rise in his peculiar... | |
 | Benjamin Rand - 1924 - 924 páginas
...touching the point in nature and the thing itself. LI The human understanding is of its own nature prone to abstractions and gives a substance and reality...than to dissect her into parts; as did the school Democritus, which went further into nature than the rest. latter rather than forms should be the object... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1928 - 558 páginas
...touching the point in nature and the thing itself. LI. The human understanding is of its own nature prone to abstractions and gives a substance and reality...Democritus, which went \ further into nature than the re st. Matter rather than forms should be the object of our attention, its configurations and changes... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1928 - 500 páginas
...point in nature and the thing itself. » LI. -f-. The human understanding is of its own nature prone to abstractions and gives a substance and reality...than to dissect her into parts; as did the school of Democriius, which went further into nature than the rest. Matter rather than forms should be the object... | |
 | 1994 - 412 páginas
...affections"; it depends on the senses, and they are "dull, incompetent, and deceptive"; and it is "prone to abstractions and gives a substance and reality to things which are fleeting." The idols of the cave belong not to the race but to the individual. They take their rise in his peculiar... | |
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