| Ekbert Faas - 1986 - 244 pages
...human mind as "a vagabond, dangerous, and fond-hardy implement,"47 while Bacon calls it "an enchanted glass, full of superstition and imposture, if it be not delivered and reduced."48 To the British philosopher, this distorting mirror was compounded of four major fallacies,... | |
| B. H. G. Wormald - 1993 - 436 pages
...beams of things should reflect according to their true incidence; nay, it is rather like an enchanted glass, full of superstition and imposture, if it be not delivered and reduced. '" Even if logicians could be converted to recognizing this, their logic would be incapable of changing... | |
| Jules David Law - 1993 - 282 pages
...beams of things should reflect according to their true incidence; nay, it is rather like an enchanted glass, full of superstition and imposture, if it be not delivered and reduced" (153). Bacon's critique is considerably different from Locke's, however, because the Renaissance tropes... | |
| Louis K. Dupré - 1993 - 318 pages
...original. Therefore Bacon cautions against distorted reflections in a mind that "is rather an enchanted glass, full of superstition and imposture, if it be not delivered and reduced." The source of truth for Bacon continues to lie outside the mind, although the emphasis placed on the... | |
| Catherine Drinker Bowen - 1993 - 294 pages
...beams of things should reflect according to their true incidence. Nay rather, it is like an enchanted glass, full of superstition and imposture, if it be not delivered and reduced." And elsewhere, urging men not to fear passion in their intellectuality: "Icarus, being in the pride... | |
| B. H. G. Wormald - 1993 - 436 pages
...beams of things should reflect according to their true incidence; nay, it is rather like an enchanted glass, full of superstition and imposture, if it be not delivered and reduced.'11 Even if logicians could be converted to recognizing this, their logic would be incapable... | |
| William A. Covino - 1994 - 208 pages
...beams of things should reflect according to their true incidence; nay, it is rather like an enchanted glass, full of superstition and imposture, if it be not delivered and reduced. (Advancement 2.14.9; 132) As DP Walker concludes, "Bacon still believed in the traditional doctrine... | |
| Allan Megill - 1994 - 356 pages
...observer. Three centuries ago, Sir Francis Bacon suggested that the "mind of man" is an "enchanted glass, full of superstition and imposture, if it be not delivered and reduced."40 As late- or post-moderns, we can hardly hope that this delivery and reduction will ever... | |
| R. S. Woolhouse - 1994 - 536 pages
...42. Boyle, Works, vol. Ill, p. 41. 43. This doctrine is also in Bacon, Advancement of Learning Bk.II: 'Let us consider the false appearances that are imposed upon us by words, which are framed and applied according to the conceit and capacities of the vulgar sort.' Works,... | |
| Jens Bartelson - 1995 - 338 pages
...beams of things should reflect according to their true incidence; nay, it is rather like an enchanted glass, full of superstition and imposture, if it be not delivered and reduced'.35 In order to dust off and disenchant the glass, the referential possibility of language... | |
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