 | Giancarlo Maiorino - 1990 - 210 pages
...things" (454). Bacon took an equally critical stand in more continental climates. However purified, "the human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolours the nature of things by mingling its own nature with it. ... the spirit of man is in fact... | |
 | David Jonathan Hildner - 1992 - 177 pages
..."idols of the Tribe" concern human beings' false assertion that they are the measure of things. ". . .the human understanding is like a false mirror, which,...nature of things by mingling its own nature with it" (48). We will see in Chapter 2 that, for Fray Luis, the human nature taken on by God in Christ is indeed... | |
 | Stewart Elliott Guthrie - 1995 - 670 pages
...are according to the measure of the individual and not according to the measure of the universe. And the human understanding is like a false mirror, which,...the nature of things by mingling its own nature with it.55 Because of our inevitable anthropocentrism, Bacon says, all perceptions, sensory and mental,... | |
 | Lynn McDonald - 1996 - 397 pages
...hierarchical relations probably, if unintentionally, harmed it. 3 Empiricism and Scepticism * Recovered The human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolours the nature of things by mingling its own nature with it. Francis Bacon' Is our knowledge... | |
 | Wolfgang Iser, David Wilson, MS RN C(inc) - 1993 - 224 pages
...are according to the measure of the individual and not according to the measure of the universe. And the human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolours the nature of things by mingling its own nature with it. 6 From this we derive an insight... | |
 | Abner Shimony - 1993 - 352 pages
...are according to the measure of the individual and not according to the measure of the universe. And the human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolours the nature of things, by mingling its own nature with it. (1937, Aphorism XLI, pp. 278-79)... | |
 | Donald N. McCloskey, Deirdre N. McCloskey - 1994 - 445 pages
...are according to the measure of the individual and not according to the measure of the universe. And the human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolours the nature of things by mingling its own nature with it. Bacon 1620 [1965], XVI The "measure... | |
 | World Institute for Advanced Phenomenological Research and Learning - 1998 - 417 pages
...illusions. We are afraid that mirrors reflect more about ourselves than objects. Thus Francis Bacon warned, “The human understanding is like a false mirror,...nature of things by mingling its own nature with it.” 6 Conversely, Sartre dramatized hell as a place where there are no mirrors, and our subjectivity is... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Rose-Mary Sargent - 1999 - 320 pages
...are according to the measure of the individual and not according to the measure of the universe. And the human understanding is like a false mirror, which...nature of things by mingling its own nature with it. 42 The Idols of the Cave are the idols of the individual man. For everyone (besides the errors common... | |
 | James H. Austin - 1999 - 868 pages
...Mirror: Beyond Narcissism and Depersonalization Human understanding is like an irregular mirror, which distorts and discolors the nature of things by mingling its own nature with it. Francis Bacon (1 561-1 626)1 The wild geese do not intend to cast their reflection. The water has no mind to receive... | |
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On the contrary, all perceptions as well of the sense as of the mind are according to the measure of the individual and not according to the measure of the universe. And the human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly,... 
