Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/11/15

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Empiricism
From: Mark Rabiner <mark@rabiner.cncoffice.com>
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 12:50:12 -0800
References: <B6384E23.96D7%howard.390@osu.edu>

"note that Bacon is arguing against the kind of learning based simply on
studying words (books) that have already been written--against simply chewing
over and over the old texts, in his case, the writings of Aristotle--rather than
studying "matter" itself. Remember that Aristotle wrote natural history as well
as ethics and poetry and drama. Bacon is arguing that people in his time (1605)
should be studying nature itself, not arguing over what Aristotle and his
Renaissance followers and interpreters (called the Scholastics) meant in his
essays about nature and the world. Hence, Bacon is arguing for empiricism."

Isn't this the opposite?
mark rabiner
:)
http://spokenword.to/rabiner/

In reply to: Message from Martin Howard <howard.390@osu.edu> (Re: [Leica] Empiricism)