But the Idols of the Market-place are the most troublesome of all: idols which have crept into the understanding through the alliances of words and names. For men believe that their reason governs words; but it is also true that words react on the understanding;... Works - Էջ 86Francis Bacon - 1864Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - Այս գրքի մասին
| Francis Bacon - 1852 - 118 էջ
...themselves fully treated. into the mind through the convention [entered into by men in regard to the use] of words and names. For men believe that their reason governs words. But it also happens that words retort and reflect their force upon the understanding ; which has rendered... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1858 - 540 էջ
...and configuration overpower and dissolve the understanding : a distinction well seen in the school of Leucippus and Democritus as compared with the other...is also true that words react on the understanding ; and this it is that has rendered philosophy and the sciences sophistical and inactive. Now words,... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1858 - 522 էջ
...such questions to keep the understanding even and clear. LIX. But the Idols of the Market-place arc the most troublesome of all : idols which have crept...is also true that words react on the understanding ; and this it is that has rendered philosophy and the sciences sophistical and inactive. Now words,... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1858 - 516 էջ
...composition and configuration overpower and dissolve the understanding: a distinction well seen in the school of Leucippus and Democritus as compared with the other...is also true that words react on the understanding; and this it is that has rendered philosophy and the sciences sophistical and inactive. Now words, being... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1861 - 578 էջ
...and configuration overpower and dissolve the understanding : a distinction well seen in the school of Leucippus and Democritus as compared with the other...is also true that words react on the understanding ; and this it is that has rendered philosophy and the sciences sophistical and inactive. Now words,... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1863 - 532 էջ
...them, may be avoided. LVIII. Let such then be our provision and contemplative prudence for keeping oft" and dislodging the Idols of the Cave, which grow for...is also true that words react on the understanding ; and this it is that has rendered philosophy and the sciences sophistical and inactive. Now words,... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1863 - 532 էջ
...then be our provision and contemplative prudence for keeping off and dislodging the Idols of the face, which grow for the most part either out of the predominance...is also true that words react on the understanding ; and this it is that has rendered philosophy and the sciences sophistical and inactive. Now words,... | |
| Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1870 - 88 էջ
...experience wink and are blinded. Hisioria Vitce et Mortis, W. v, 231, tr. The Idols of the Market place are the most troublesome of all : idols which have...is also true that words react on the understanding; and this it is that has rendered philosophy and the sciences sophistical and inactive. Now words, being... | |
| Henry Dunning Macleod - 1872 - 712 էջ
...pernicious predetermination, the authority of its former conclusions may remain inviolate." \ Again — '' Men believe that their reason governs words; but it...also true that words re-act on the understanding; and this it is that has rendered philosophy and the sciences sophistical and inactive. Now words being... | |
| Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1876 - 320 էջ
...10. [97] Devita : i Tim. vi. 20, from the Vulgate. [101] tioverneth : Compare Nov. Org. Aph. lix. , ' Men believe that their reason governs words ; but...is also true that words react on the understanding. ' Bacon gives as instances, Fortune, Prime Mover, Element of Fire. We might add, Nature, Law of Nature,... | |
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