 | William Leavitt Stoddard - 1910 - 110 pages
...evidence proves nothing; but the keenest mind of the seventeenth century is my authority for quoting: "It is the peculiar and perpetual error of the human...both alike. Indeed, in the establishment of any true axiom, the negative instance is the more forcible of the two." My purpose is not so much to prove or... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1928 - 558 pages
...though far sounder and better. Besides, independently of that delight and vanity which I have described, it is the peculiar and perpetual error of the human...both alike. Indeed in the/ establishment of any true axiom, the negative instance isj the more forcible of the two. The human understanding is moved by... | |
 | Sir William Hale-White - Blood - 1927 - 64 pages
...not to imagine or suppose, but to discover what Nature does or can be made to do. We are told that "it is the peculiar and perpetual error of the human...hold itself indifferently disposed towards both alike "[26]. "What a man had rather were true he more readily believes " [27]. We suffer from " the mischievous... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1927 - 646 pages
...support and. agree with it. 3. Besides, independently of that delight and vanity which I have described, it is the peculiar and perpetual error of the human...moved and excited by affirmatives than by negatives. The aptness of the three quotations is, I trust, without comment apparent. We crave order and connections,... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1927 - 634 pages
...support and agree with it. 3. Besides, independently of that delight and vanity which I have described, it is the peculiar and perpetual error of the human...moved and excited by affirmatives than by negatives. The aptness of the three quotations is, I trust, without comment apparent. We crave order and connections,... | |
 | William Gay Ballantine - Logic - 1930 - 240 pages
...gods, — 'Aye,' asked he again, 'but where are they painted that were drowned after their vows?' ' "It is the peculiar and perpetual error of the human...ought properly to hold itself indifferently disposed toward both alike. Indeed, in the establishment of any true [196] axiom, the negative instance is the... | |
 | Maire Jaanus, Maire J. Kurrik - Education - 1988 - 292 pages
...Bacon's judgment we overvalue affirmation. He discovers that we lean toward it innately and uncritically. It is the peculiar and perpetual error of the human...than by negatives; whereas it ought properly to hold itselt indifferently disposed toward both alike. Indeed, in the establishment of any true axiom, the... | |
 | I.F. Goldstein, M. Goldstein - Medical - 1984 - 428 pages
...delight and vanity which I have described, it is the peculiar and perpetual error of the human .(8) intellect to be more moved and excited by affirmatives...both alike. Indeed in the establishment of any true axiom, the negative instance is the more forcible of the two. (p. 50-51) Refutability Theories like... | |
 | Michael R. Matthews - Philosophy - 1989 - 180 pages
...though far sounder and better. Besides, independently of that delight and vanity which I have described, it is the peculiar and perpetual error of the human...both alike. Indeed in the establishment of any true axiom, the negative instance is the more forcible of the two. APHORISMS 95—96 XCV Those who have... | |
 | James Reason - Psychology - 1990 - 324 pages
...deal with affirmative statements, they find it exceedingly difficult to understand negative statements ("it is the peculiar and perpetual error of the human...moved and excited by affirmatives than by negatives"), and they show an often overwhelming tendency to verify generalisations rather than falsify them ("The... | |
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Besides, independently of that delight and vanity which I have described, it is the peculiar and perpetual error of the human intellect to be more moved and excited by affirmatives than by negatives; whereas it ought properly to hold itself indifferently... 
