| Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - Law - 1831 - 478 pages
...peculiar and perpetual error of the human understanding to be more moved and excited by affirmative* than negatives, whereas it ought duly and regularly to...positive, just as they are found, and in fact not causable, yet the human understanding, incapable of resting, seeks for something more intelligible.... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1831 - 474 pages
...peculiar and perpetual error of the human understanding to be more moved and excited by affirmatives than negatives, whereas it ought duly and regularly to...greatest generalities in nature must be positive, j ust as they are found, and in fact not causable, yet the human understanding, incapable of resting,... | |
| Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1831 - 486 pages
...peculiar and perpetual error of the human understanding to be more moved and excited by affirmatives than negatives, whereas it ought duly and regularly to...positive, just as they are found, and in fact not causable, yet the human understanding, incapable of resting, seeks for something more intelligible.... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1841 - 616 pages
...whilst it is very slow and unfit for the transition to the remote and heterogeneous instances, Ъу which axioms are tried as by fire, unless the office...positive, just as they are found, and in fact not cansable, yet, the human understanding, incapable of resting, seeks for something more intelligible.... | |
| Francis Bacon - Induction (Logic) - 1844 - 348 pages
...though without '.'''*. tt?\•-.- effect, still presses forward. Thus we cannot .',-- •^-..ifi' .". -. conceive of any end or external boundary of the world,...greatest generalities in nature must be positive, just as f ' '' they are found, and in fact not causable, yet the ~ .? ' human understanding, incapable of resting,... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1850 - 620 pages
...even in simple notions. 46. The human understanding, when any proposition has been once laid down, (either from general admission and belief, or from...greatest generalities in nature must be positive, jnst яя they are found, and in fact not саигаЫе, yet, the human understanding, incapable of... | |
| Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1857 - 612 pages
...to the present day, since the usually received distinction of an infinity, a parle ante and a parle post, cannot hold good : for it would thence follow...greatest generalities in nature must be positive, just a» they are found, and in fact not cansable, yf-t, the human understanding, incapable of resting,... | |
| Ernst Kuno B. Fischer - 1857 - 540 pages
...distinction of an infinity, a parte ante and a parte post, cannot hold good, inasmuch aa it would necessarily follow that one infinity is greater than another, and also that infinity is wasting away and verging to an end. There is a similar subtilty with regard to the infinite divisibility of TENDENCY... | |
| Kuno Fischer - Philosophy - 1857 - 492 pages
...distinction of an infinity, a parte ante and a parte post, cannot hold good, inasmuch as it would necessarily follow that one infinity is greater than another, and also that infinity is wasting away and verging to an end. There is a similar eubtilty with regard to the infinite divisibility of By the idea... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1858 - 540 pages
...distinction which is commonly received of infinity in time past and in time to come can by no means hold; for it would thence follow that one infinity is greater than another, and that infinity is wasting away and tending to become finite. The like subtlety arises touching the infinite... | |
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