Francis Bacon, Of the Proficience and Advancement of Learning, Divine and Human (1605)
Date
1605
Author
Book title
The twoo bookes of Francis Bacon. Of the proficience and aduancement of learning, diuine and humane
Printer
Thomas Purfoot and Thomas Creede
Publisher
Henry Tomes
Transcription source
EEBO/TCP
Text type
printed book
Genre
Treatises
Subject area
philosophy
Summary
Commentary on words and things.
Language
headwords: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
Word-group
type: undifferentiated
Word-entry
type: other
sample: It is therefore now a question, what is left remaining for METAPHISICKE: wherein I may without preiudice preserue thus much of the conceit of Antiquitie; that PHISICKE should contemplate that which is inherent in Matter, & therefore transitorie, and METAPHISICKE, that which is abstracted & fixed. And againe that PHISICKE shoulde handle that which supposeth in Nature onely a being and mouing, and METAPHISICKE should handle that which supposeth furder in Nature, a reason, vnderstanding, and platforme. But the difference perspicuously expressed, is most familiar and sensible. For as wee deuided NATVRALL PHILOSOPHY in GENERALL into the ENQVIRIE of CAVSES & PRODVCTIONS of EFFECTS: So that part which concerneth the ENQVIRIE of CAVSES, wee doe subdiuide, according to the receiued and sound diuision of CAVSES; The one part which is PHISICKE enquireth and handleth the MATERIALL & EFFICIENT CAVSES, & the other which is METAPHISICKE handleth the FORMAL and FINAL CAVSES.
sample: It is therefore now a question, what is left remaining for METAPHISICKE: wherein I may without preiudice preserue thus much of the conceit of Antiquitie; that PHISICKE should contemplate that which is inherent in Matter, & therefore transitorie, and METAPHISICKE, that which is abstracted & fixed. And againe that PHISICKE shoulde handle that which supposeth in Nature onely a being and mouing, and METAPHISICKE should handle that which supposeth furder in Nature, a reason, vnderstanding, and platforme. But the difference perspicuously expressed, is most familiar and sensible. For as wee deuided NATVRALL PHILOSOPHY in GENERALL into the ENQVIRIE of CAVSES & PRODVCTIONS of EFFECTS: So that part which concerneth the ENQVIRIE of CAVSES, wee doe subdiuide, according to the receiued and sound diuision of CAVSES; The one part which is PHISICKE enquireth and handleth the MATERIALL & EFFICIENT CAVSES, & the other which is METAPHISICKE handleth the FORMAL and FINAL CAVSES.
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