APPENDIX I. 

 ARISTOTLE ON EXPERIENCE. 



1. " Let us first understand the facts, and then we may seek for 

 the cause." (De Part. I. i, 639.) 



2. " Reasons not drawn from the inherent principles of things 

 are hollow. The hollow argument seems potent, but is powerless." 

 (De Gener. Animal. HI. 10, 760.) 



3. "There are not facts enough to warrant a conclusion, and 

 more dependence must be placed on facts than on reasonings, which 

 must agree with facts." (On the Parthenogenesis of Bees, De Gen. 

 Animal. HI. 10, 760.) 



4. " The peculiar principles indeed in every science are many, 

 hence it is the province of experience to supply (furnish) the prin- 

 ciples of everything ; for, from phenomena being sufficiently appre- 

 hended, demonstrations have thus been invented (found) in every 

 art and science." (Prior Anal. i. 30.) 



5. lt From sense, therefore, as we say, memory is produced, but 

 from repeated remembrance of the same thing, we get experience, 

 for many remembrances constitute one experience." (Post An. n. 

 18.) 



6. "The reason why men do not sufficiently attend to facts 

 is their want of experience. Those who are accustomed to physical 

 inquiries are more competent to lay down the principles which have 

 an extensive application. It is easy to distinguish those who argue 

 from facts and those who argue from notions." (De Gen. i. 2, 316.) 



7. "We do not possess scientific knowledge through sensation, 

 neither is sense science, though they are employed about the same 

 things, for sense apprehends particulars (facts), science universals 

 (laws)." (Post Anal. i. 31.) 



