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P. 156. [5] being broken unto it by great experience: Lat. longa doctus 
experientia, [6] Cic, Orat. xiv. 45, 46. [8] in thesi: ‘in these,’ ed. 1605, 
corrected in Errata. [23] See p. 181. 
P. 157. [1] Plato, Menon, ii. p. 80. [12] See Aristotle, Rhet. ii. 22. 
16,17. [22] See Nov. Org. i. 130. [23] in going of a way: i.e. in 
going on or along a road, [29] In the De Augm. is here inserted an 
example of a special topic, de gravi et levi. [30] De Augm. v. 4. 
[31, 32] which... which: There is a little confusion of construction 
here, the first ‘ which’ referring to ‘arts,’ and the second to ‘judgement.’ 
P, 158. [2] otherwise it is: i.e. it is otherwise. Comp. p. 110, 1. 4, 
[14] Aristotle, De Motu Anim. 2, 3. [16] Atlas: See Hom. Od, i. 
52-54. [31] principle: Some copies of ed. 1605 read ‘ principles.’ [Ib.] 
probation ostensive: or ‘ ostensive reduction, because you prove, in the 
first figure, either the very same conclusion as before, or one which implies 
it’ Whately, Logic; ii. 3. § 5. 
P. 159. [1] ‘ Reductio ad impossibile. By which we prove (in the first 
figure) not directly that the original conclusion is true, but that it cannot 
be false; i.e. that an absurdity would follow from the supposition of its 
being false.’ Whately, Logic, ii, 3, § 6. [2] the number of middle 
terms to be; i.e. greater or less, [29] Seneca, Ep. Mor. 45. § 8; sic 
ista sine noxa decipiunt, quomodo prestigiatorum acetabula et calculi, in 
quibus me fallacia ipsa delectat. [23] doth not only put a man besides 
his answer: Lat. non solum id prestant ut non habeat quis quod respondeat, 
[27] the Sophists: The Lat. specifies Gorgias, Hippias, Protagoras, 
Euthydemus, and the rest. [28] See the beginning of the Thezetetus. 
P. 160. [23] categories or predicaments: Of Aristotle’s enumeration 
of Existences, as the basis of Logic, Mr. Mill says, ‘The categories, or 
predicaments—the former a Greek word, the latter its literal interpreta- 
tion in the Latin language—were intended by him and his followers as 
an enumeration of all things capable of being named; an enumeration 
by the summa genera, i.e. the most extensive classes into which things 
could be distributed.’ Logic, i. p. 60. They were ten in number: sub- 
stance, quantity, quality, relation, action, passion, time, place, position, 
and habit. [31] This section is expanded in the Latin into a discussion 
of the ‘idols’ or fallacies of the human mind; the idols of the tribe, the 
cave, the marketplace, and the theatre. See Nov. Org. i. 39-68. 
P, 161. [10] false appearances: Lat. idola. [16] See Essay xxxv. 
p- 152. These are what Bacon elsewhere calls the ‘idols of the tribe’ 
[18] This story is told of Diagoras by Cicero, De Nat. Deor. iii. 37, 
and of Diogenes the Cynic by Diogenes Laertius, vi. 59. See Bacon, 
Nov. Org. i. 46. [23] Nov. Org. i. 45. [32] monodica, sui juris: as 
if from pdvos and bien. The word Bacon intended to use was mona- 
dica, unique, which he then might have rendered sui generis instead of 
sui juris, 
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