 | William Whewell - 1858 - 412 pàgines
...The scene of nature is a picture without depth of substance, no less than the scene of art; and in the one case as in the other, it is the mind which,...of theory over the whole face of nature, if it be tfaory to infer more than we see. But other men, unaware of this masquerade, hold it to be a fact that... | |
 | William Whewell - 1858 - 408 pàgines
...scene of art; and in the one case as in the o> it is the mind which, by an act of its own, discovervt that colour and shape denote distance and solidity....of theory over the whole face of nature, if it be theqry to infer more than we see. But other men, unaware of this masquerade, hold it to be a fact that... | |
 | John Grote - 1865 - 334 pàgines
...art ; and in the one case as " in the other, it is the mind which, by an act of its own, dis" covers that colour and shape denote distance and solidity....which they have " penetrated nature's disguise*". If any one will ponder this passage well, he will see, I think, how the two things which I condemn,... | |
 | John Grote - 1865 - 330 pàgines
...art ; and in the one case as " in the other, it is the mind which, by an act of its own, dis" covers that colour and shape denote distance and solidity....operation by which they have " penetrated nature's disguise2". If any one will ponder this passage well, he will see, I think, how the two things which... | |
 | 1881 - 572 pàgines
...of the external world and translating as they read. The draughtsman, indeed, is compelled, for bis purposes, to return back in thought from the solid...that they see cubes and spheres, spacious apartments aud winding avenues. And these things are facts to them, because they are unconscious of the mental... | |
 | 1881 - 572 pàgines
...thought from the solid bodies which he has inferred, to the shapes of surface which he really sees. Ho knows that there is a mask of theory over the whole face of nature, it it be f/ieon/ to infer more than we see. But other men, unaware of this masquerade, hold it to be... | |
 | Christian Evidence Society - 1871 - 552 pàgines
...The scene of nature is a picture without depth of substance, no less than the scene of art; and in the one case, as in the other, it is the mind which,...operation by which they have penetrated nature's disguise. . . . k ' Our sensations require ideas to bind them together; namely, ideas of space, time, number,... | |
 | George Smith Drew - 1878 - 250 pàgines
...The scene of nature is a picture without depth of substance, no less than the scene of art ; and in the one case, as in the other, it is the mind which,...by which they have penetrated nature's disguise." — Philosophy of Inductive Science, vol. ip 42. What underlies this mask of nature, as it is here... | |
 | Marine Biological Laboratory (Woods Hole, Mass.) - 1895 - 312 pàgines
...into a distinction that places most of our knowledge to the credit of "theory." There is, indeed, " a mask of theory over the whole face of nature, if it be theory to infer more than we see" (Whewell.) The claim has been made that epigenesis stands for " fact " and evolution for "theory."... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - 1898 - 636 pàgines
...back in thought from the solid bodies which he has inferred, to the shapes of the VOL. XXIV.— 14 surface which he really sees. He knows that there...of theory over the whole face of nature, if it be a theory to infer more than we see. But other men, unaware of this masquerade, hold it to be a fact... | |
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knows that there is a mask of theory over the whole face of " nature, if it be theory to infer more than we see. But other •' men, unaware of this masquerade, hold it to be a fact that " they see cubes and spheres, spacious apartments and winding "... 
