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... rejected ( so far as the inquisition of nature is concerned ) , as a thing uncertain , confused , and ill built up ; and I cannot be fairly asked to abide by the decision of a tribunal which is itself on its trial . 22 THE PLAN OF THE ...
... rejected ( so far as the inquisition of nature is concerned ) , as a thing uncertain , confused , and ill built up ; and I cannot be fairly asked to abide by the decision of a tribunal which is itself on its trial . 22 THE PLAN OF THE ...
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... reject demonstration by syllogism , as acting too confusedly , and letting nature slip out of its hands . For although no one can doubt that things which agree in a middle term agree with one another ( which is a proposition of mathe ...
... reject demonstration by syllogism , as acting too confusedly , and letting nature slip out of its hands . For although no one can doubt that things which agree in a middle term agree with one another ( which is a proposition of mathe ...
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... rejection lead to an inevitable conclusion . And if that ordinary mode of judgment practised by the logicians was so laborious , and found exercise for such great wits , how much more labour must we be prepared to bestow upon this other ...
... rejection lead to an inevitable conclusion . And if that ordinary mode of judgment practised by the logicians was so laborious , and found exercise for such great wits , how much more labour must we be prepared to bestow upon this other ...
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... reject , as an Atalanta's apple that hinders the race . Such then is the office of this natural history of mine . Next , with regard to the mass and composition of it : I mean it to be a history not only of nature free and at large ...
... reject , as an Atalanta's apple that hinders the race . Such then is the office of this natural history of mine . Next , with regard to the mass and composition of it : I mean it to be a history not only of nature free and at large ...
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... reject ; and instead of it I open and lay out a new and certain path for the mind to proceed in , starting directly from the simple sensuous perception . The necessity of this was felt no doubt by those who attributed so much importance ...
... reject ; and instead of it I open and lay out a new and certain path for the mind to proceed in , starting directly from the simple sensuous perception . The necessity of this was felt no doubt by those who attributed so much importance ...
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Page 252 - For man by the fall fell at the same time from his state of innocency and from his dominion over creation. Both of these losses however can even in this life be in some part repaired ; the former by religion and faith, the latter by arts and sciences.
Page 410 - He hath made man of the dust of the earth, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life...
Page 104 - But for my part I do not trouble myself with any such speculative and withal unprofitable matters. My purpose, on the contrary, is to try whether I cannot in very fact lay more firmly the foundations, and extend more widely the limits, of the power and greatness of man.
Page 367 - For to say that the hairs of the eyelids are for a quickset and fence about the sight; or that the firmness of the skins and hides of living creatures is to defend them from the extremities of heat or cold; or that the bones are for the columns or beams, whereupon the frames of the bodies of living creatures are built...
Page 60 - ... extreme admiration of antiquity, others to an extreme love and appetite for novelty; but few so duly tempered that they can hold the mean, neither carping at what has been well laid down by the ancients, nor despising what is well introduced by the moderns. This however turns to the great injury of the sciences and philosophy: since these affectations of antiquity and novelty are the...
Page 60 - But the Idols of the Market-place arc the most troublesome of all : idols which have crept into the understanding through the alliances of words and names. For men believe that their reason governs words ; but it is also true that words react on the understanding ; and this it is that has rendered philosophy and the sciences sophistical and inactive.
Page 58 - But by far the greatest hindrance and aberration of the human understanding proceeds from the dulness, incompetency, and deceptions of the senses ; in that things which strike the sense outweigh things which do not immediately strike it, though they be more important.
Page 388 - The first is the discontinuance of the ancient and serious diligence of Hippocrates, which used to set down a narrative of the special cases of his patients, and how they proceeded, and how they were judged by recovery or death.
Page 58 - Such then are the idols which I call Idols of the Tribe; and which take their rise either from the homogeneity of the substance of the human spirit, or from its preoccupation, or from its narrowness, or from its restless motion, or from an infusion of the affections, or from the incompetency of the senses, or from the mode of impression.