It would be an unsound fancy and self-contradictory to expect that things which have never yet been done can be done except by means which have never yet been tried. Works - Página 68por Francis Bacon - 1864Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Francis Bacon - 1863 - 532 páginas
...magician ; but by all (as things now are) with slight endeavour and scanty success. It would be an unsound fancy and self-contradictory to expect that things...things already known ; not in the number of axioms. vin. Moreover the works already known are due to chance and experiment rather than to sciences; for... | |
| Henry Maudsley - 1867 - 476 páginas
...transcendental consciousness on which metaphysics is based, claims to give a faithful * " It would bo an unsound fancy and self-contradictory, to expect that things...except by means which have never yet been tried." — Nov. Org. Aphorism vi. t " There still lives, and it is a singular fact, an old parrot in Ilaypures... | |
| Henry Maudsley - 1868 - 556 páginas
...direct • " It would be on unsound fancy and self-contradictory, to expect that things which h»ve never yet been done can be done, except by means which have never yet been tried." — Nov. Org. Aphorism vi. t " There still lives, and it is a singular fact, an old parrot in Maypures... | |
| Henry Maudsley - 1874 - 508 páginas
...transcendental consciousness on which metaphysics is based, claims to give a faithful " " It would be an unsound fancy and self-contradictory, to expect that things...except by means which have never yet been tried." — Nov. Org. Aphorism vi. * " There still lives, and it is a singular fact, an old parrot in Maypures... | |
| Henry Maudsley - 1877 - 620 páginas
...inductive science. It is argued, and with great cogency, that such states as * " It would be an unsound fancy and self-contradictory, to expect that things...except by means which have never yet been tried." — Nov. Org. Aphorism vi. Forasmuch, however, as we have good grounds for believing that there is... | |
| Henry Maudsley - 1878 - 586 páginas
...and with great cogency, that such states as * " It would he an unsound fancy and self-contradicto1y, to expect that things which have never yet been done can be done, except by means which have RCVCT yet been tried.1' — Nov. Org. Aphorism vi, Forasmuch, however, as we have good grounds for... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1883 - 516 páginas
...but by all (as things now are) with slight endeavour and scanty success. VI. It would be an unsound fancy and self-contradictory to expect that things...VII. The productions of the mind and hand seem very numeroua in books and manufactures. But all this variety lies in an exquisite subtlety and derivations... | |
| Alfred Hix Welsh - 1882 - 558 páginas
...a different path of travel. To change the goal is to transform the method. 'It would be an unsound fancy, and self-contradictory, to expect that things...except by means which have never yet been tried.' The syllogists had fashioned nature according to preconceived ideas, starting from axioms not accurately... | |
| John Nichol - 1889 - 284 páginas
...this extension he has in view when he declares (' Nov. Org.,' B. i. 6), it would be an unsound fancy to expect that things which have never yet been done...done except by means which have never yet been tried, when he says that he is " in hac re plane protopirus et vestigia nullius sequutus;" and when he proposes... | |
| 1888 - 928 páginas
...investigation hitherto attempted. "' It would be," as he says, " an unsound fancy and self -contradictory, to expect that things which have never yet been done...except by means which have never yet been tried."* There were many obstacles in his way, and he seems always to have felt that the first part of the new... | |
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