Novum Organum: Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of NatureWilliam Pickering, 1844 - 336 sider |
Inni boken
Resultat 1-5 av 53
Side 2
... method was not to dispute upon the very point of the possibility of any thing being known , but to put it to the test of experience . Yet they themselves , by only employing the power of the understanding , have not adopted a fixed rule ...
... method was not to dispute upon the very point of the possibility of any thing being known , but to put it to the test of experience . Yet they themselves , by only employing the power of the understanding , have not adopted a fixed rule ...
Side 4
... method and design ? Yet men are hurried on with the same senseless energy and useless combination in intellectual matters , as long as they expect great results either from the number and agreement , or the excellence and acuteness of ...
... method and design ? Yet men are hurried on with the same senseless energy and useless combination in intellectual matters , as long as they expect great results either from the number and agreement , or the excellence and acuteness of ...
Side 7
... method the anticipation of the mind , and the other the interpretation of nature . We have still one request left . We have at least reflected and taken pains in order to render our propositions not only true , but of easy and familiar ...
... method the anticipation of the mind , and the other the interpretation of nature . We have still one request left . We have at least reflected and taken pains in order to render our propositions not only true , but of easy and familiar ...
Side 10
... and not methods for discovery or plans for new operations . 9. The sole cause and root of almost every defect in the sciences is this ; that whilst we falsely admire and extol the powers of the human mind 10 NOVUM ORGANUM .
... and not methods for discovery or plans for new operations . 9. The sole cause and root of almost every defect in the sciences is this ; that whilst we falsely admire and extol the powers of the human mind 10 NOVUM ORGANUM .
Side 12
... method . 19. There are and can exist but two ways of investigating and discovering truth . The one hurries on rapidly from the senses and particu- lars to the most general axioms ; and from them as principles and their supposed ...
... method . 19. There are and can exist but two ways of investigating and discovering truth . The one hurries on rapidly from the senses and particu- lars to the most general axioms ; and from them as principles and their supposed ...
Andre utgaver - Vis alle
Novum Organum: Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature Francis Bacon Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1850 |
Novum Organum, or True suggestions for the interpretation of nature ... Francis Bacon Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1850 |
Novum Organum: Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature Francis Bacon Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1893 |
Vanlige uttrykk og setninger
action admit affirmative ancients animals Aphorism apparent magnitude appears Aristotle axioms burning glass causes cold common compression condensed confined consider contrary coruscations deduced degree of heat Democritus dili diligent discovered discovery distance diurnal motion earth easily effects escape excited exhibit experiment fire flame form of heat former glass greater heavenly bodies Hence idols ignited inquiry inventions investigation iron labour Lastly latent less let the required Leucippus light liquids magnet mankind mass matter means metals method mind motion namely naphtha natural philosophy negative NOVUM ORGANUM objects observed operation particular Plato prerogative instances produced putrefaction quantity quicksilver rank of prerogative rays readily regard reject rendered required nature sciences senses similar sk sk sk solid species spirits of wine stances substances syllogism systems of philosophy takes place tangible term things tion touch true violent warm weight whilst wont to call
Populære avsnitt
Side 114 - It is the glory of God to conceal a thing : but the honour of kings is to search out a matter.
Side 199 - But things which are equal to the same are equal to one another || ; therefore CA is equal to CB ; wherefore CA,
Side 19 - ... for we regard all the systems of philosophy hitherto received or imagined, as so many plays brought out and performed, creating fictitious and theatrical worlds. Nor do we speak only of the present systems, or of the philosophy and sects of the ancients, since numerous other plays of a similar nature can be still composed and made to agree with each other, the causes of the most opposite errors being generally the same. Nor, again, do we allude merely to general systems, but also to many elements...
Side 22 - ... infinity in time past and in time to come can by no means hold; for it would thence follow that one infinity is greater than another, and that infinity is wasting away and tending to become finite. The like subtlety arises touching the infinite divisibility of lines, from the same inability of thought to stop.
Side 80 - The bee, a mean between both, extracts/ matter from the flowers of the garden and the field, but works and fashions it by its own efforts. The true labour of Philosophy resembles hers, for it neither relies entirely or principally on the powers of the Mind, nor yet lays up in the Memory the matter afforded by the Experiments of Natural History or Mechanics in its raw state, but changes and works it in the Understanding. We have good reason therefore to derive hope from a closer and purer alliance...
Side 23 - The human understanding resembles not a dry light, but admits a tincture of the will and passions, which generate their own system accordingly : for man always believes more readily that which he prefers. He, therefore, rejects difficulties for want of patience in investigation; sobriety, because it limits his hope; the depths of nature, from superstition ; the light of experiment, from arrogance and pride, lest his mind should appear to be occupied with common...
Side 21 - The human understanding, when any proposition has been once laid down (either from general admission and belief, or from the pleasure it affords), forces everything else to add fresh support and confirmation ; and although most cogent and abundant instances may exist to the contrary, yet either does not observe or despises them, or gets rid of and rejects them by some distinction, with violent and injurious prejudice, rather than sacrifice the authority of its first conclusions.
Side 9 - MAN, as the minister and Interpreter of Nature, does and understands as much as his observations on the Order of Nature, either with regard to things or the mind, permit him, and neither knows nor is capable of more.
Side 82 - ... nothing counted, weighed, or measured, is to be found in natural history : and what in observation is loose and vague, is in information deceptive and treacherous. And if any one thinks that this is a strange thing to say, and something like an unjust complaint, seeing that Aristotle...
Side 12 - ... proceeds to judgment and to 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...