 | Francis Bacon - 1857 - 880 pages
...certainly thought it possible so to sever observation from theory that the process of collecting facts and that of deriving consequences from them might...opinion was based on an imperfect apprehension of the connexion between facts and theories; the connexion appearing to him to be merely an external one,... | |
 | Samuel Rawson Gardiner - 1883 - 432 pages
...certainly thought it possible so to sever observation from theory, that the process of collecting facts, and that of deriving consequences from them, might...former are the materials of the latter.' According to Bacon's view of the Constitution, the House of Commons was the collector of facts, whilst the work... | |
 | Samuel Rawson Gardiner - 1889 - 418 pages
...certainly thought it possible so to sever observation from theory, that the process of collecting facts, and that of deriving consequences from them, might...former ' are the materials of the latter.' According to Bacon's view of the Constitution, the House of Commons was the collector of facts, whilst the work... | |
 | 1905 - 958 pages
...certainly thought it possible so to sever observation from theory that the process of collecting facts and that of deriving consequences from them might...namely that the former are the materials of the latter. With these views that which has been already noticed touching the finiteness of Nature, namely that... | |
 | Frederic William Westaway - 1912 - 474 pages
...Bacon thought it possible so to sever observation from theory that the process of collecting facts, and that of deriving consequences from them, might...carried on independently and by different persons. His opinion seemed to be that the connection between fact and theory was merely an external one; and... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1996 - 464 pages
...certainly thought it possible so to sever observation from theory that the process of collecting facts and that of deriving consequences from them might...opinion was based on an imperfect apprehension of the connexion between facts and theories; the connexion appearing to him to be merely an external one,... | |
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... Philosophical Works ( Works, i. 62) is interesting, as showing that Bacon's speculative errors were precisely the same in kind as those which lay at the bottom of his political mistakes :—' Bacon . . . certainly thought it possible so to sever observation... 