 | Francis Bacon - 1900 - 542 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.... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Logic - 1901 - 606 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.... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1901 - 302 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.... | |
 | Benjamin Ward Richardson, Mrs. George Martin - Medicine - 1901 - 498 pages
...elucidated. " There are and can exist but two modes of 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.... | |
 | Paul Monroe - Education - 1905 - 814 pages
...method. " There are," he says, " and can be only two ways for the investigation and discovery of truth. One flies from the senses and particulars to the most general axioms, and from these principles and their infallible truths determines and discovers intermediate axioms. And this is the way now in... | |
 | James Harvey Robinson - Europe - 1906 - 616 pages
...and that a method of intellectual operation be introduced altogether better and more certain. . . . 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.... | |
 | Oliver Joseph Thatcher - Anthologies - 1907 - 502 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.... | |
 | Philosophy, Modern - 1908 - 768 pages
...sciences, and is applied in vain to intermediate axioms; being no match for the subtlety of nature. It commands assent therefore to the proposition, but...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.... | |
 | Philosophy, Modern - 1908 - 768 pages
...hitherto adopted are but wanderings, not being abstracted and formed from things by proper methods. xvn Nor is there less of wilfulness and wandering in the...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.... | |
 | Frank Pierrepont Graves - Education - 1910 - 360 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...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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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... 
