 | Daniel Sommer Robinson - 1924 - 424 sider
...There are (he writes) 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.... | |
 | Sir Arthur Newsholme - 1927 - 270 sider
...concerning the interpretation of Nature" clearly exhibits the difference between the new and the old system: There are and can be only two ways of searching into...for settled and immovable, proceeds to judgment and to the discovery of middle axioms. The other derives axioms from the senses and particulars, rising... | |
 | René Descartes - 1927 - 502 sider
...the sophistries of a previous age. Bacon would have classed Descartes among those thinkers who "fly from the senses and particulars to the most general...principles, the truth of which it takes for settled and immoveable, proceeds to judgment and to the discovery of middle axioms ;" while Descartes was of the... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1928 - 494 sider
...and that a method of intellectual operation be' introduced altogether better and more certain. XIX. There are and can be only two ways of searching into...principles, the truth of which it takes for settled and immoveable, proceeds to judgment and to the discovery of middle axioms. And this way is now in fashion.... | |
 | Stephen DeWitt Stephens - 1928 - 172 sider
...interested. "There are," said he,1 "and can only be two ways for the investigation and study 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 truths. And this is the way now in... | |
 | 1911 - 696 sider
...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.... | |
 | René Descartes - 1927 - 474 sider
...the sophistries of a previous age. Bacon would have classed Descartes among those thinkers who "fly from the senses and particulars to the most general...principles, the truth of which it takes for settled and immoveable, proceeds to judgment and to the discovery of middle axioms;" while Descartes was of the... | |
 | Herman Boerhaave - 1983 - 394 sider
...the affairs of the human family.' 52 Id., on the deductive and inductive methods, Works, IV, p. 50: 'The one flies from the senses and particulars to...principles, the truth of which it takes for settled and immoveable, proceeds to judgment and to the discovery of middle axioms. And this way is now in fashion.... | |
 | Margaret M. Lock - 1984 - 344 sider
...Medicine at McGill University have provided useful and 1 Introduction: The Pendulum Swings to Holism There are and can be only two ways of searching into and discovering the truth. The one flies from the senses and particulars to the most general axioms ... this way is... | |
 | J.D. North, J.J. Roche - 1985 - 484 sider
...of Transubstantiation, which he knew was absolutely against 10. Bacon wrote in the A/ovum organum: "There are and can be only two ways of searching into...which it takes for settled and immovable, proceeds to judgement and to the discovery of middle axioms. And this way is now in fashion. The other derives... | |
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... 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 axioms last of all.... 
