Neither the naked hand nor the understanding left to itself can effect much. It is by instruments and helps that the work is done, which are as much wanted for the understanding as for the hand. The Works of Francis Bacon - Página 47por Francis Bacon - 1858Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Alvin I. Goldman - 1986 - 456 páginas
...be introduced by consideration of a passage from Francis Bacon. In his Novum Organum, Bacon wrote: Neither the naked hand nor the understanding left...supply either suggestions for the understanding or cautions.7 Bacon's point should be granted. Just as man's technological achievements have not been... | |
| L.S. Vygotsky - 1987 - 442 páginas
...hypothesis he found in Bacon's (1620/1960, p. 39} well-known words, which he afterwards would often cite: "Neither the naked hand nor the understanding left...to itself can effect much. It is by instruments and aids that the work is done." Of course, Bacon's idea is not at all unequivocal; it can be understood... | |
| Neville McMorris - 1989 - 276 páginas
...emphasis on the mind. He is going to join mind and hand in an equal endeavour. As he says in Aphorisms 2: "Neither the naked hand nor the understanding left...to itself can effect much. It is by instruments and help that the work is done, which are as much wanted for the understanding as for the hand." Similar... | |
| Gayle L. Ormiston - 1990 - 236 páginas
...with the argument that true knowledge is acquired only by a close intercourse with things themselves. "Neither the naked hand nor the understanding left...much wanted for the understanding as for the hand" (Novum Organum 1.2). Knowledge is to be acquired by active experimentation, and ultimately evaluated... | |
| Don Ihde - 1991 - 178 páginas
...which belie the distinctions made later by both philosophy of science and philosophy of technology: Neither the naked hand nor the understanding left...supply either suggestions for the understanding or cautions.38 Condensed here is the recognition that science gains both its knowledge and its power from... | |
| Sigmund Krancberg - 1994 - 192 páginas
...union of the experimental and rational faculties."1 9 Moreover, in Novum Organum, Bacon warned that neither the naked hand nor the understanding left...as for the hand. And as the instruments of the hand . . . give motion to guide it, so the instruments of the mind supply better suggestions for the understanding... | |
| Carl Mitcham - 1994 - 410 páginas
...with the argument that true knowledge is acquired only by a close intercourse with things themselves: "Neither the naked hand nor the understanding left...much wanted for the understanding as for the hand" (Novum Organum 1.2). Knowledge is to be acquired by active experimentation and ultimately evaluated... | |
| Thomas L. Hankins, Robert J. Silverman - 1999 - 358 páginas
...the Historiography of Science IN THE second aphorism of the Novum Organum Francis Bacon argued that "neither the naked hand nor the understanding left...supply either suggestions for the understanding or cautions"1 In this aphorism Bacon identified two wants of natural philosophy — a new method for investigating... | |
| Henry Adams - 1995 - 628 páginas
...absolutely on forces other than his own, and on instruments which superseded his senses. Bacon foretold it: 'Neither the naked hand nor the understanding, left...much. It is by instruments and helps that the work is done.'20 Once done, the mind resumed its illusion, and society forgot its impotence; but no one better... | |
| Bc Crandall - 1996 - 238 páginas
...Computing Sciences (http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/users/ ezequiel/alife-page/alife.html/). Ted Kaehler Neither the naked hand nor the understanding left...much wanted for the understanding as for the hand. —Francis Bacon The reason we are on a higher imaginative level is not because we have finer imagination,... | |
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