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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. [i] 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. 

 C3i 3 2 1 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. no, 1. 4. 

 [14] Aristotle, De Motu Anim. 2, 3. [16] Atlas: See Horn. Od. i. 

 5 2 -54- [3 1 ] 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. [i] Reductio ad impossible. 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 prcsstigiatorum acetabula et calculi, in 

 quibus me fallacia ipsa delectat. [23] doth not only put a man besides 

 his answer : Lat. non solum id prcestant ut non habeat quis quod respondent. 

 [27] the Sophists: The Lat. specifies Gorgias, Hippias, Protagoras, 

 Euthydemus, and the rest. [28] See the beginning of the Thextetus. 



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 : I,at. 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 Lnertius, vi. 59. See Bacon, 

 Nov. Org. i. 46. [23] Nov. Org. i. 45. [32] monodica, sui juris : as 

 if from puvos and O IKTJ. 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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