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" XIX There are and can be only two ways of searching into and discovering truth. The one flies from the senses and particulars to the most general axioms, and from these principles, the truth of which it takes for settled and immovable, proceeds to judgment... "
The Works of Francis Bacon: Translations of the philosophical works - Page 72
by Francis Bacon - 1863
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A History of Education During the Middle Ages and the Transition to Modern Times

Frank Pierrepont Graves - Education - 1910 - 358 pages
...he describes. This new method of seeking knowledge he contrasts, with that in vogue, as follows : " There are and can be only two ways of searching into...axioms, and from these principles, the truth of which it tak^s for settled and^immovable, proceeds to judgment and the discovery of middle axioms. And this...
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English Philosophy: A Study of Its Method and General Development

Thomas Miller Forsyth - Philosophy, English - 1910 - 252 pages
...are and can be," he says, " only two ways for the investigation and discovery of truth. The one leaps from the senses and particulars to the most general axioms, and from these principles and their infallible truth determines intermediate axioms. This is the way now in use. The other constructs...
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Great Educators of Three Centuries: Their Work and Its Influence ..., Volume 4

Frank Pierrepont Graves - Education - 1912 - 314 pages
...describes. This new method of seeking knowledge he contrasts with that in vogue, as follows: —• "There are and can be only two ways of searching into...principles, the truth of which it takes for settled and immovable, proceeds to judgment and the discovery of middle axioms. And this way is now in fashion....
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English Philosophers and Schools of Philosophy

James Seth - Philosophy, English - 1912 - 404 pages
...nature, we must allow her to dictate to us the conceptions which shall truly represent the facts. ' There are and can be only two ways of searching into...principles, the truth of which it takes for settled and immovable, proceeds to judgment and to the discovery of middle axioms. And this way is now in fashion....
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History of Education: A Survey of the Development of Educational Theory and ...

Patrick Joseph McCormick - Education - 1915 - 448 pages
..."There are and can exist but two ways of investigating and discovering truth. The one hurries on rapidly from the senses and particulars to the most general axioms, and from them, as principles and their supposed indisputable truth, derives and discovers the intermediate axioms....
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The Dublin University Calendar, Volume 1

Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland) - 1917 - 560 pages
...everything over? ' inquired Gondi. ' Yea, apparently." -, ... MK. ROGERS. 1. (a) According to Bacon there can be only two ways of searching into and discovering truth, the one right and the other wrong ? (b) What names does he give to them ? . (c) How does syllogistic logic...
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A Study in Law and Induction Made with a Proposal that the Scientific Method ...

Waldo Grant Morse - Law - 1917 - 92 pages
...There are and can exist but two ways of investigating and discovering truth. The one hurries on rapidly from the senses and particulars to the most general axioms, and from them, as principles and their supposed indisputable truth, derives and discovers the intermediate axioms...
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The Meaning of the Terms: 'existence' and 'reality'

Alvin Thalheimer - Existentialism - 1920 - 126 pages
...is most enamored of the nights of reason must start with the senses. But "the one hurries on rapidly from the senses and particulars to the most general axioms, and from them as principles and their supposed indisputable truth derives and discovers the intermediate axioms,"...
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Pioneers of Modern Education 1600-1700

John William Adamson - Education - 1921 - 320 pages
...There are, and can be but two ways of investigating and discovering truth. The one hurries on rapidly from the senses and particulars to the most general axioms, and from them, as principles and their supposed indisputable truth, derives and discovers the intermediate axioms....
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The Philosophical Review, Volume 31

Jacob Gould Schurman, James Edwin Creighton, Frank Thilly, Gustavus Watts Cunningham - Electronic journals - 1922 - 660 pages
...experience, Bacon likes to compare sciences to pyramids rising from the broad plain of empirical fact. "There are and can be only two ways of searching into...from the senses and particulars to the most general i See Nov. Org., II, 53 init. "Ibid., I, 77. sSee Ibid.. 1. 51. *Ibid., I, 12o; cf. I, 119. Cf. also...
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