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... instance , not observed or not known before , chance to come in the way , the axiom is rescued and preserved by some ... instances , and those for the most part of familiar occur- rence , they straightway touch the understanding and fill ...
... instance , not observed or not known before , chance to come in the way , the axiom is rescued and preserved by some ... instances , and those for the most part of familiar occur- rence , they straightway touch the understanding and fill ...
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... instances to be found on the other side , yet these it either neglects and despises , or else by some distinction sets aside and rejects ; in order that by this great and pernicious pre- determination the authority of its former ...
... instances to be found on the other side , yet these it either neglects and despises , or else by some distinction sets aside and rejects ; in order that by this great and pernicious pre- determination the authority of its former ...
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... instances , by which axioms are tried as in the fire , the intellect is altogether slow and unfit , unless it be forced thereto by severe laws and overruling authority . XLVIII . The human understanding is unquiet ; it cannot stop or ...
... instances , by which axioms are tried as in the fire , the intellect is altogether slow and unfit , unless it be forced thereto by severe laws and overruling authority . XLVIII . The human understanding is unquiet ; it cannot stop or ...
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... instances and experiments fit and apposite ; wherein the sense decides touching the experiment only , and the experiment touching the point in nature and the thing itself . LI . The human understanding is of its own nature prone to ...
... instances and experiments fit and apposite ; wherein the sense decides touching the experiment only , and the experiment touching the point in nature and the thing itself . LI . The human understanding is of its own nature prone to ...
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... instances , and those in due ; series and order ; as I shall say presently when I come to the method and scheme for the formation of notions and axioms . LX . The idols imposed by words on the understanding are of two kinds . They are ...
... instances , and those in due ; series and order ; as I shall say presently when I come to the method and scheme for the formation of notions and axioms . LX . The idols imposed by words on the understanding are of two kinds . They are ...
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Página 47 - Human knowledge and human power meet in one, for where the cause is not known the effect cannot be produced. Nature to be commanded must be obeyed, and that which in contemplation is as the cause is in operation as the rule.
Página 93 - Those who have handled sciences have been either men of experiment or men of dogmas. The men of experiment are like the ant ; they only collect and use : the reasoners resemble spiders, who make cobwebs out of their own substance. 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.
Página 499 - All this is true, See. if time stood still ; which contrariwise moveth so round, that a froward retention of custom is as turbulent a thing as an innovation -, and they that reverence too much old times, are but a scorn to the new.