 | 1843 - 744 pages
...science; and the instrument by which this task will mainly be accomplished is the Method of Deduction. " A revolution is peaceably and progressively effecting...rapidly reverting from experimental to deductive. But the deductions which Bacon abolished were from premisses hastily snatched up, or arbitrarily assumed.... | |
 | Bengal council of educ - 1848 - 394 pages
...from particulars to particulars ?" Give examples of each kind of reasoning. 12. Mill says, " Bacon changed the method of the sciences from deductive...rapidly reverting from experimental to deductive." Explain and criticise this doctrine. Greece. 1. Give some account of the character and opinions of... | |
 | William Whewell - 1849 - 104 pages
...the doctrine that " Deduction is the great scientific work of the present and of future ages ; " and that " A revolution is peaceably and progressively...reverse of that to which Bacon has attached his name." I trust, on the contrary, that we have yet many new laws of nature still to discover ; and that our... | |
 | William Whewell - Logic - 1849 - 126 pages
...the doctrine that " Deduction is the great scientific work of the present and of future ages ; " and that " A revolution is peaceably and progressively...reverse of that to which Bacon has attached his name." I trust, on the contrary, that we have yet many new laws of nature still to discover ; and that our... | |
 | John Harris - Human beings - 1849 - 526 pages
...less experimental, the tendency of all sciences is to acquire an ever-enlarging deductive power. " A revolution is peaceably and progressively effecting...reverse of that to which Bacon has attached his name ; " (and, it might be added, in consequence of that,) " that great man changed the method of the sciences... | |
 | Charles Hay Cameron - Education - 1853 - 220 pages
...destined irrevocably to predominate in the course of scientific investigation from this time forward. " ' A revolution is peaceably and progressively effecting...rapidly reverting from experimental to deductive. But the deductions which Bacon abolished were from premises hastily snatched up or abitrarily assumed.... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Induction (Logic) - 1855 - 456 pages
..."Deduction," he says, " is the great scientific work of the present and of future ages." And again, " A Revolution is peaceably and progressively effecting...rapidly reverting from Experimental to Deductive." This is partly true, and Bacon seems to have expected it : but Mill's love for Deduction has led him... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Induction (Logic) - 1855 - 424 pages
...Deduction," he says, " is the great scientific work of the present and of future ages." And again, " A Revolution is peaceably and progressively effecting...in Philosophy, the reverse of that to which Bacon hat attached his name. That great man changed the Method of the Science* from Deductive to Experimental,... | |
 | Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell - 1856 - 288 pages
...is the notion, that " Deduction is the great scientific work of the present and future ages ;" and that " a revolution is peaceably and progressively...reverse of that to which Bacon has attached his name." This doctrine, assuming as it does, that the highest generalities have been reached, evinces a narrowness... | |
 | Samuel Tyler - Philosophy - 1858 - 244 pages
...logic, is the notion, that "Deduction is the great scientific work of the present and future ages;" and that "a revolution is peaceably and progressively...reverse of that to which Bacon has attached his name." This doctrine, assuming as it does, that the highest generalities have been reached, evinces a narrowness... | |
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A revolution is peaceably and progressively effecting itself in philosophy, the reverse of that to which Bacon has attached his name. That great man changed the method of the sciences from deductive to experimental, and it is now rapidly reverting from... 
