 ... proceeds to judgment and to the discovery of middle axioms. And this way is now in fashion. The other derives axioms from the senses and particulars, rising by a gradual and unbroken ascent, so that it arrives at the most general...  Works - Page 346by Francis Bacon - 1841Full view - About this book
 | 1858 - 690 pages
...xiv. Cf. Inslaur. Mag, Distr. Op. vol. ix, p. 170. De Augm. Sci., lib. V, cap. ii, voL viii, p. 202. " There are and can exist but two ways of investigating...particulars to the most general axioms; and from them " The whole aim of philosophy is nothing more than to evolve the natures and properties of things."... | |
 | Margaret Fuller, Ralph Waldo Emerson, George Ripley - 1842 - 642 pages
...that was common in his time, — " hurries on rapidly from particulars to the most general axjoms, and from them as principles, and their supposed indisputable...truth, derives and discovers the intermediate axioms." Of course what is built on conjecture, and only by guess, can never satisfy men, who ask for the facts... | |
 | Theodore Parker - 1843 - 394 pages
...Bacon says of a method of philosophizing that was common in his time, — "hurries on rapidly from particulars to the most general axioms, and from them...truth, derives and discovers the intermediate axioms." Of course what is built on conjecture, and only by guess, can never satisfy men, who ask for the facts... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1855 - 386 pages
...into use. 19. There are and can be but two ways of investigating and discovering Truth. The one leaps from the senses and particulars to the most general axioms, and from these as first principles, and their unshaken truth, judges on and discovers medial axioms : and this... | |
 | Pierre-Victor Renouard - 1856 - 742 pages
...method adopted till then, of placing at the foundation of the sciences, the most general axioms. " There are and can exist but two ways of investigating...supposed indisputable truth, derives and discovers intermediate axioms. This is the way now in use. The other constructs its axioms from the senses and... | |
 | Theodore Parker - 1856 - 412 pages
...Bacon says of a method of philosophizing that was common in his time, — " hurries on rapidly from particulars to the most general axioms, and from them...truth, derives and discovers the intermediate axioms." Of course what is built on conjecture, and only by guess, can never satisfy men, who ask for the facts... | |
 | 1856 - 600 pages
...Bacon condemns, as the method which hurries on rapidly from the particulars supplied by the senses to the most general axioms, and from them as principles, and their supposed indispntable trnth, derives and discovers the intermediate axioms." It is thought that cantion and... | |
 | William Thomson - 1857 - 416 pages
...Bacon condemns as the method which " hurries on rapidly from the particulars supplied by the senses to the most general axioms, and from them as principles, and their supposed in* WkewelPs Hist. Sci. Ind. HL 477. As with other great discoveries, hints had been given already,... | |
 | Ernst Kuno B. Fischer - 1857 - 540 pages
...are, and can be," he says, " 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 truth, determines and discovers intermediate axioms. And this... | |
 | Kuno Fischer - 1857 - 544 pages
...are, and can be," he says, " only two ways for the investigation and discovery xof truth. One flies from the senses and particulars to the most general axioms, and from these principles, and their infallible truth, determines and discovers intermediate axioms. And this... | |
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