 But yet if we would speak of things as they are, we must allow that all the art of rhetoric, besides order and clearness, all the artificial and figurative application of words eloquence hath invented, are for nothing else but to insinuate wrong ideas,...  Scientific Method: Its Philosophy and Its Practice - Page 132by Frederic William Westaway - 1912 - 439 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Victor E. Taylor, Charles E. Winquist - 1998 - 840 pages
...them can scarce pass for faults. But yet, if we would speak of things as they are, we must allow that all the art of rhetoric, besides order and clearness, all the artificial and figurative application of words eloquence hath invented, are for nothing else but to insinuate wrong ideas, move... | |
 | John Weir Perry - 1999 - 224 pages
...control over nature and power over her processes. For example, Locke urged that "figurative speech serves but to insinuate wrong ideas, move the passions, and thereby mislead the judgment."5 Descartes, too, maintained that "whether awake or asleep, we ought never to allow ourselves... | |
 | Heinrich Franz Plett, Peter Lothar Oesterreich, Thomas O. Sloane - 1999 - 566 pages
...humanist ideal of homo rhetoricus, Locke's statements reveal a strong hostility to rhetoric: [...] all the art of rhetoric, besides order and clearness, all the artificial and figurative application of words eloquence hath invented, are for nothing else but to insinuate wrong ideas, move... | |
 | Peter Cosgrove - 1999 - 300 pages
...to a fact-based history: "If we would speak of things as they are," says Locke, "we must allow that all the art of rhetoric, besides order and clearness; all the artificial and figurative application of words eloquence hath invented, are for nothing else but to insinuate wrong ideas, move... | |
 | George Alexander Kennedy - 1999 - 366 pages
...them can scarce pass for faults. But yet if we would speak of things as they are, we must allow that all the art of rhetoric, besides order and clearness; all the artificial and figurative application of words eloquence hath invented, are for nothing else but to insinuate wrong ideas, move... | |
 | Gordon Graham - 2000 - 248 pages
...all the art of rhetoric, besides order and clearness; all the artificial and figurative application of words eloquence hath invented, are for nothing...ideas, move the passions, and thereby mislead the judgement; and so indeed are perfect cheats: and therefore, however laudable or allowable oratory may... | |
 | Walter Jost, Wendy Olmsted - 2000 - 436 pages
...things as they are, we must allow that all the art of rhetoric, besides order and clearness . . . [is] for nothing else but to insinuate wrong ideas, move the passions, and thereby mislead the judgement" (3.10.34). In antiquity, as in the Enlightenment and thereafter, the pursuit of truth was... | |
 | Michael Clark - 2000 - 272 pages
...Locke's view is tacitly behind this mistrust: If we would speak of things as they are, we must allow that all the art of rhetoric, besides order and clearness, all the artificial and figurative application of words eloquence hath invented, are for nothing else but to insinuate wrong ideas, move... | |
 | Rostislav Kocourek - 2001 - 464 pages
...approaches to the metaphor. Mark Johnson (1980:48) quotes John Locke's text in which Locke maintains that all the artificial and figurative applications of...ideas, move the passions, and thereby mislead the judgement. (Locke 1959 [1706]: bk. m. chap. X.34) Metaphors are believed to be imprecise, their imprecision... | |
 | Timothy Dykstal - 2001 - 242 pages
...scientific prose, and John Locke spoke for many reformers when he complained that rhetoric was invented "for nothing else but to insinuate wrong Ideas, move the Passions, and thereby mislead the Judgment." 40 As John J. Richetti has reiterated, however, the opposition between philosophy and rhetoric cannot... | |
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