The Positive Philosophy
- Kind
- Book
- Date
- 1974
- Publisher
- Ams Pr Inc
- Retrieved
- Feb 2, 2012
- ISBN
- NRvlAAAAMA
2 memes from this reference
Facts Need Theory to Guide Them
All good intellects have repeated, since Bacon's time, that there can be no real knowledge but that which is based on observed facts. This is incontestable, in our present advanced stage; but, if we look back to the primitive stage of human knowledge, we shall see that it must have been otherwise then. If it is true…
The Positive Mind
In the final, the positive, state, the mind has given over the vain search after absolute notions, the origin and destination of the universe, and the causes of phenomena, and applies itself to the study of their laws—that is, their invariable relations of succession and resemblance. Reasoning and observation, duly…