 | Methodist Church - 1858 - 690 pages
...xiv. Cf. Inslaur. Mag, Distr. Op. vol. ix, p. 170. De Augm. Sci., lib. V, cap. ii, voL viii, p. 202. " There are and can exist but two ways of investigating...particulars to the most general axioms; and from them " The whole aim of philosophy is nothing more than to evolve the natures and properties of things."... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1855 - 386 pages
...into use. 19. There are and can be but two ways of investigating and discovering Truth. The one leaps from the senses and particulars to the most general axioms, and from these as first principles, and their unshaken truth, judges on and discovers medial axioms : and this... | |
 | Pierre-Victor Renouard - Medicine - 1856 - 742 pages
...method adopted till then, of placing at the foundation of the sciences, the most general axioms. " There are and can exist but two ways of investigating...supposed indisputable truth, derives and discovers intermediate axioms. This is the way now in use. The other constructs its axioms from the senses and... | |
 | Great Britain - 1856 - 600 pages
...Bacon condemns, as the method which hurries on rapidly from the particulars supplied by the senses to the most general axioms, and from them as principles, and their supposed indispntable trnth, derives and discovers the intermediate axioms." It is thought that cantion and... | |
 | William Thomson - Logic - 1857 - 416 pages
...Bacon condemns as the method which " hurries on rapidly from the particulars supplied by the senses to the most general axioms, and from them as principles, and their supposed in* WkewelPs Hist. Sci. Ind. HL 477. As with other great discoveries, hints had been given already,... | |
 | Ernst Kuno B. Fischer - 1857 - 540 pages
...are, and can be," he says, " only two ways for the investigation and discovery of truth. One flies from the senses and particulars to the most general axioms, and from these principles, and their infallible truth, determines and discovers intermediate axioms. And this... | |
 | Kuno Fischer - Philosophy - 1857 - 544 pages
...are, and can be," he says, " only two ways for the investigation and discovery xof truth. One flies from the senses and particulars to the most general axioms, and from these principles, and their infallible truth, determines and discovers intermediate axioms. And this... | |
 | Edwin Paxton Hood - Self-culture - 1858 - 276 pages
...with regard to things or the mind, permit him, and is incapable of more. " 2. There are, and can be but two ways of investigating and discovering truth....indisputable truth, derives and discovers the intermediate axiom.— This is the way now in use. The other constructs its axioms from the senses and particulars,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Philosophy - 1858 - 522 pages
...certain. XIX. There are and can be only two ways of searching into and discovering truth. The one flies from the senses and particulars to the most general axioms, and from these principles, the truth of which it takes for settled and immoveable, proceeds to judgment and... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1858 - 516 pages
...certain. XIX. There are and can be only two ways of searching into and discovering truth. The one flies from the senses and particulars to the most general axioms, and from these principles, the truth of which it takes for settled and immoveable, proceeds to judgment and... | |
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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... 
