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... discovery ; —a course of proceeding at once poor in aim and unskilfut in design . For no man can rightly and successfully investigate the nature of anything in the thing itself ; let him vary his experiments as laboriously as he will ...
... discovery ; —a course of proceeding at once poor in aim and unskilfut in design . For no man can rightly and successfully investigate the nature of anything in the thing itself ; let him vary his experiments as laboriously as he will ...
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... For I drag into light many things which no one who was not proceeding by a regular and certain way to the discovery of causes would have thought of inquiring after ; being indeed in themselves of no PLAN OF THE WORK . 29.
... For I drag into light many things which no one who was not proceeding by a regular and certain way to the discovery of causes would have thought of inquiring after ; being indeed in themselves of no PLAN OF THE WORK . 29.
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... 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 axioms last of all . This is 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 axioms last of all . This is the ...
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... discovery of new works ; since the subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of argu- ment . But axioms duly and orderly formed from particulars easily discover the way to new particulars , and thus render sciences ...
... discovery of new works ; since the subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of argu- ment . But axioms duly and orderly formed from particulars easily discover the way to new particulars , and thus render sciences ...
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... discovery of causes : for although the most general principles in nature ought to be held merely positive , as they are discovered , and cannot with truth be referred to a cause ; nevertheless the human understanding being unable to ...
... discovery of causes : for although the most general principles in nature ought to be held merely positive , as they are discovered , and cannot with truth be referred to a cause ; nevertheless the human understanding being unable to ...
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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.