 The human understanding is of its own nature prone to suppose the existence of more order and regularity in the world than it finds. And though there be many things in nature which are singular and unmatched, yet it devises for them parallels and conjugates...  Works - Side 79av Francis Bacon - 1864Uten tilgangsbegrensning - Om denne boken
 | Francis Bacon - 1858 - 540 sider
...of Idols I must speak more largely and exactly, that the understanding may be duly cautioned. XLV. The human understanding is of its own nature prone...the existence of more order and regularity in the i world than it finds. And though there be many things in nature which are singular and unmatched,... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1876 - 300 sider
...he himself does not obey. His lofty and discursive spirit will not bear in mind its own warning that the human understanding is of its own nature prone...more order and regularity in the world than it finds. Quite against his own system, for example, is the assumption that everything tangible that we are acquainted... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1881 - 292 sider
...he himself does not obey. His lofty and discursive spirit will not bear in mind its own warning that the human understanding is of its own nature prone...more order and regularity in the world than it finds. Quite against his own system, for example, is the assumption that everything' tangible that we are... | |
 | Ellen Crofts - 1884 - 394 sider
...which he himself recognised, " that tendency of the human understanding which, of its own nature, is prone to suppose the existence of more order and regularity in the world than it finds." His conception of the Prima Philosophia but showed his intense yearning to know those great laws for... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1886 - 304 sider
...he himself does not obey. His lofty and discursive spirit will not bear in mind its own warning that the human understanding is of its own nature prone...more order and regularity in the world than it finds. Quite against his own system, for example, is the assumption that everything tangible that we are acquainted... | |
 | William Jay Youmans - 1899 - 930 sider
...universe to become " the bond-slave of human thought " is to be found, as Bacon notes, in our proneness to " suppose the existence of more order and regularity in the world " than is actually to be discovered there. While we read design and purpose into the phenomena of Nature because... | |
 | 1905 - 958 sider
...of Idols I must speak more largely and exactly, that the understanding may be duly cautioned. XLV. The human understanding is of its own nature prone...that all celestial bodies move in perfect circles u ; spirals and dragons 16 being (except in name) utterly rejected. Hence too the element of Fire with... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1928 - 558 sider
...of Idols I must speak more largely and exactly, that the understanding may be duly cautioned. XLV. The human understanding is of its own nature prone...that all celestial bodies move in perfect circles j spirals and dragons being (except in name) utterly rejected. Hence too the element of Fire with its... | |
 | Benjamin Christopher Leeming - 1926 - 312 sider
...in his forty-fifth aphorism of Book 1, Novum Organum, tells us: "The human understanding is of its nature prone to suppose the existence of more order and regularity in the world than it finds." If that be true then all scientific analyses, all flights of imagination, in fact all ideational processes,... | |
 | Albert Edwin Avey - 1927 - 420 sider
...very good so far as it goes. But the tendency of the mind is to generalize too soon. As Bacon says: "The human understanding is of its own nature prone...order and regularity in the world than it finds." It tends to stop in the collection of data before it has covered the whole of the relevant field. It... | |
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