The Works of Francis Bacon, Volumen4Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1858 |
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... axiom to another , so that the most general are not reached till the last : but then when you do come to them you find them to be not empty notions , but well defined , and such as nature would really recognise as her first principles ...
... axiom to another , so that the most general are not reached till the last : but then when you do come to them you find them to be not empty notions , but well defined , and such as nature would really recognise as her first principles ...
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... axioms once rightly discovered will carry whole troops of works along with them , and produce them , not here and there one , but in clusters . And that unseasonable and puerile hurry to snatch by way of earnest at the first works which ...
... axioms once rightly discovered will carry whole troops of works along with them , and produce them , not here and there one , but in clusters . And that unseasonable and puerile hurry to snatch by way of earnest at the first works which ...
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... axioms . VIII . Moreover the works already known are due to chance and experiment rather than to sciences ; for the sciences we now possess are merely systems for the nice ordering and setting forth of things already invented ; not ...
... axioms . VIII . Moreover the works already known are due to chance and experiment rather than to sciences ; for the sciences we now possess are merely systems for the nice ordering and setting forth of things already invented ; not ...
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... axioms ; being no match for the subtlety of nature . It commands assent therefore to the proposition , but does not ... axioms than in the formations of notions ; not excepting even those very principles which are obtained by common in ...
... axioms ; being no match for the subtlety of nature . It commands assent therefore to the proposition , but does not ... axioms than in the formations of notions ; not excepting even those very principles which are obtained by common in ...
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... axioms , and from these principles , the truth of which it takes for settled and immoveable , proceeds to judg- ment and to the discovery of middle axioms . And this way is now in fashion . The other derives axioms from the senses and ...
... axioms , and from these principles , the truth of which it takes for settled and immoveable , proceeds to judg- ment and to the discovery of middle axioms . And this way is now in fashion . The other derives axioms from the senses and ...
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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.