 | Francis Bacon - 1858 - 516 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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1861 - 578 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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Philosophy, English - 1864 - 528 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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1864 - 526 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, aiid that infinity is wasting away and tending to become finite. The like subtlety arises touching... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Induction (Logic) - 1872 - 602 pages
...fire, unless the office be imposed upon it by severe regulations and a powerful authority. XLVIII. The human understanding is active and cannot halt'...end. There is the same difficulty in considering the in- , finite divisibility of lines arising from the weakness of our minds, which weakness interferes... | |
 | Robert Cleary - 1878 - 240 pages
...sect. 22.) Cf. Bacon, Nov. Org. Book I. Aph. 48 — "The usually received distinction of an infinite a parte ante and a parte post cannot hold good ; for...that infinity is wasting away and tending to an end." See also Hamilton, Lectures on Metaphysics, Vol. II., pp. 372, 527, 528, Fifth Edition. Locke illustrates... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Science - 1893 - 268 pages
...fire, unless the office be imposed upon it by severe regulations and a powerful authority. xlviii. The human Understanding is active and cannot halt...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 - Logic - 1899 - 540 pages
...immediately filled and inflated. It then begins almost imperceptibly to conceive and suppose that everything is similar to the few objects which have taken possession...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 - 1900 - 542 pages
...immediately filled and inflated. It then begins almost imperceptibly to conceive and suppose that everything is similar to the few objects which have taken possession...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 - 1901 - 302 pages
...cannot conceive of any end or external \Xboundary of the world, and it seems necessarily to occur to UB that there must be something beyond. Nor can we imagine...positive, just as they are found, and in fact not causable, yet the human understanding, incapable of resting, seeks for something more intelligible.... | |
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It then begins almost imperceptibly to conceive and suppose that every thing is similar to the few objects which have taken possession of the mind; whilst it is very slow and unfit for the transition to the remote and heterogeneous instances, by which... 
