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... discovery ; -a course of proceeding at once poor in aim and unskilful 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 unskilful 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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... discovered , the use of the mariner's needle , as a more faithful and certain guide , had to be found out ; in like manner the discoveries which have been hitherto made in the arts and sciences are such as might be made by practice ...
... discovered , the use of the mariner's needle , as a more faithful and certain guide , had to be found out ; in like manner the discoveries which have been hitherto made in the arts and sciences are such as might be made by practice ...
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... discovering their own errors ; only the errors are here , the means of dis- covery are to seek . The sense fails in two ways . Sometimes it gives no infor- mation , sometimes it gives false information . For first , there are very many ...
... discovering their own errors ; only the errors are here , the means of dis- covery are to seek . The sense fails in two ways . Sometimes it gives no infor- mation , sometimes it gives false information . For first , there are very many ...
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... discovered will carry whole troops of works along with them , and produce them , not here and there one , but in ... discovery of causes would have thought of inquiring after ; being indeed in themselves of no PLAN OF THE WORK . 29.
... discovered will carry whole troops of works along with them , and produce them , not here and there one , but in ... discovery of causes would have thought of inquiring after ; being indeed in themselves of no PLAN OF THE WORK . 29.
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... discovered , proved , or added , — not however according to the true rules and methods of interpretation , but by the ordinary use of the un- derstanding in inquiring and discovering . For besides that I hope my speculations may in ...
... discovered , proved , or added , — not however according to the true rules and methods of interpretation , but by the ordinary use of the un- derstanding in inquiring and discovering . For besides that I hope my speculations may in ...
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