The Works of Francis Bacon ...: Translations of the philosophical worksLongmans, 1858 - English literature |
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... Logic , one by one correct them- selves , was a thing not to be hoped for : because the primary notions of things which the mind readily and passively imbibes , stores up , and accumulates ( and it is from them that all the rest flow ) ...
... Logic , one by one correct them- selves , was a thing not to be hoped for : because the primary notions of things which the mind readily and passively imbibes , stores up , and accumulates ( and it is from them that all the rest flow ) ...
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... Logic , sup- posing that the surest helps to the sciences were to be found in that , they have indeed most truly and excellently perceived that the human intellect left to its own course is not to be trusted ; but then the remedy is ...
... Logic , sup- posing that the surest helps to the sciences were to be found in that , they have indeed most truly and excellently perceived that the human intellect left to its own course is not to be trusted ; but then the remedy is ...
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... logic ; though the difference between it and the ordi- nary logic is great ; indeed immense . For the ordinary logic professes to contrive and prepare helps and guards for C 4 PLAN OF THE WORK . 23.
... logic ; though the difference between it and the ordi- nary logic is great ; indeed immense . For the ordinary logic professes to contrive and prepare helps and guards for C 4 PLAN OF THE WORK . 23.
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... logic almost all the work is spent about the syllogism . Of induction the logicians seem hardly to have taken any serious thought , but they pass it by with a slight notice , and hasten on to the formulæ of disputation . I on the ...
... logic almost all the work is spent about the syllogism . Of induction the logicians seem hardly to have taken any serious thought , but they pass it by with a slight notice , and hasten on to the formulæ of disputation . I on the ...
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... logic takes on trust . For first , the logicians borrow the principles of each science from the science itself ; secondly , they hold in reverence the first notions of the mind ; and lastly , they receive as conclusive the immediate ...
... logic takes on trust . For first , the logicians borrow the principles of each science from the science itself ; secondly , they hold in reverence the first notions of the mind ; and lastly , they receive as conclusive the immediate ...
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