 | Francis Bacon - 1858 - 540 pages
...actually deal with it. Hence it follows that the order of demonstration is likewise inverted. For hitherto the proceeding has been to fly at once from the sense...though it offers an easy and ready way to disputation. Now my plan is to proceed regularly and gradually from one axiom to another, so that the most general... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1858 - 516 pages
...actually deal with it. Hence it follows that the order of demonstration is likewise inverted. For hitherto the proceeding has been to fly at once from the sense...though it offers an easy and ready way to disputation. Now my plan is to proceed regularly and gradually from one axiom to another, so that the most general... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1861 - 578 pages
...actually deal with it. Hence it follows that the order of demonstration is likewise inverted. For hitherto the proceeding has been to fly at once from the sense...though it offers an easy and ready way to disputation. Now my plan is to proceed regularly and gradually from one axiom to another, so that the most general... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1864 - 528 pages
...actually deal with it. Hence it follows that the order of demonstration is likewise inverted. For hitherto the proceeding has been to fly at once from the sense...though it offers an easy and ready way to disputation. Now my plan is to proceed regularly and gradually from one axiom to another, so that the most general... | |
 | 1870 - 974 pages
...book i., aph. 104. He says: — " Hitherto the proceeding lias been to fly at once from the sense to particulars, up to the most general propositions as...rest by middle terms : a short way, no doubt, but precipi'ate, and one which will never lead to nature, though it offers an easy and ready way to disputation.... | |
 | 1870 - 492 pages
...book i., aph. 104. He says : — " Hitherto the proceeding lias been to fly at once from the sense to partic-ulars, up to the most general propositions...-upon, and from these to derive the rest by middle terme : a short way, no doubt, but precipi'ate, and one which will never lead to nature, though it... | |
 | John Edwin Nixon - 1885 - 256 pages
...neutrum est, sed quaedam observatio constans atque diuturna est, quum quid visual - 13* (9) Hitherto the proceeding has been to fly at once from the sense...and particulars up to the most general propositions, and from these to derive the rest by middle terms. Now my plan is to proceed regularly and gradually... | |
 | Florian Cajori - 1899 - 340 pages
...I., p. 87. (To be quoted hereafter as WHEWELL.) answered, why did people of such great penetration " fly at once from the sense and particulars up to the most general propositions," or why did they come to apply ideas "not distinct and appropriate to the facts " ? What causes led... | |
 | 1905 - 958 pages
...leads to no result. Hence it follows that the order of demonstration is likewise inverted. For hitherto the proceeding has been to fly at once from the sense...though it offers an easy and ready way to disputation. Now my plan is to proceed regularly and gradually from one axiom to another, so that the most general... | |
 | William Caxton, Jean Calvin, Nicolaus Copernicus, John Knox, Edmund Spenser, Sir Walter Raleigh, Francis Bacon, John Heminge, Henry Condell, Isaac Newton, Henry Fielding, Samuel Johnson, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, William Wordsworth, Walt Whitman, Hippolyte Taine - 1910 - 638 pages
...actually deal with it. Hence it follows that the order of demonstration is likewise inverted. For hitherto the proceeding has been to fly at once from the sense...though it offers an easy and ready way to disputation. Now my plan is to proceed regularly and gradually from one axiom to another, so that the most general... | |
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For hitherto the proceeding has been to fly at once from the sense and particulars up to the most general propositions, as certain fixed poles for the argument to turn upon, and from these to derive the rest by middle terms: a short way, no doubt, but... 
