A Free and Impartial Censvre of the Platonick Philosophie: Being a Letter Written to His Much Honoured Friend, M N. B.W. Hall, 1666 - 115 pages |
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Page 68 - For befide that they carry in them no Intelligible Affinity to the Notices , which they were defign'd to...
Page 73 - tis with this estimate I would have them read: But when they pretend to be Natures Secretaries, & to understand all her Intrigues [...] and yet put us off with nothing but rampant Metaphors, and Pompous Allegories, and other splendid but empty Schemes of speech, I must crave leave to account them 14 Bacon, Works, vol. 3, pp. 282 IF. For Bacon's relation to Ciceronianism see Judith Rice Henderson. '"Vain Affectations': Bacon on Ciceronianism in the Advancement of Learning'.
Page 76 - Thus their wanton & luxuriant fancies climbing up into the Bed of Reason, do not only defile it by unchast and illegitimate Embraces, but instead of real conceptions and notices of Things, impregnate the mind with nothing but Ayerie and Subventaneous...
Page 58 - Men sought truth in their own little worlds, and not in the great and common world ;" for they disdain to spell, and so by degrees to read in the volume of God's works ; and contrariwise, by continual meditation and agitation of wit, do urge and as it were invocate their own spirits to divine, and give oracles unto them, whereby they are deservedly deluded.
Page 64 - Philosophers ... only search after the Properties, Qualities, Vertues and operations of Natural Beings; the Knowledge whereof may be acquired by Observations and Experiments; but there are no certain means or rational Methods ... to investigate the mysterious Ideas of bare and abstracted Essences
Page 73 - I that am too simple or too serious," writes Samuel Parker, "to be cajol'd with the frenzies of a bold and ungovern'd Imagination cannot be perswaded to think the Quaintest plays and sportings of wit to be any true and real knowledge" (.4 free and impartial censvre of the Platonick philosophic (Oxford, 1666), p.
Page 63 - And therefore I conclude that the office of Definitions is not to explain the Natures of things, but to fix and circumscribe the signification of Words ; for they being Notes of things, unless their significations be settled, their meaning must needs be Equivocal and uncertain...
Page 91 - Springs of contraverlies, rather than by determining for the one part, to give them as it were a Pipe and Conduit to convey them to Pofterity, I perfwade my felf, the Church had not fuftered that inundation of Opinions, with which at this day it is over-run.
Page 45 - Ages:) at least we shall see whether it be possible to frame any certain Hypotheses or no, which is the thing I most doubt of, because, though the Experiments be exact and certain, yet their Application to any Hypotheses is doubtful and uncertain; so that though the...
Page 65 - ... the Natures of Beings that are not obnoxious to sence I demand by what ways and methods they came to that knowledge. For tis not enough to prove that this or that is the Idea of any thing, because some fanciful men are able to make pretty Hypotheses concerning it...