The Novum Organon Author:Francis Bacon Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: same thing; but under such relation as agrees with the Senses. But now we must proceed to farther helps. 21. After the Tables of First Presentation, and Re... more »jection or Exclusion, and also of the First Vintage made according to them; we must proceed to the remaining helps of the Intellect for Interpretation of Nature and true and perfect Induction. And in setting forth these we will proceed, where Tables are required, with Heat and Cold; but where there are only few examples required, we will proceed with all other subjects; so that inquiry be not confounded, and yet our teaching be within less narrow limits. We will speak, then, (1) of Prerogative Instances; (2) of the Supports of Induction; (3) of the Rectification of Induction ; (4) of the Variation of Inquiry according to the Nature of the Subject; (5) of Prerogative Natures, with a view to investigation; or of what is to be investigated first and what afterwards; (6) of the Limits of Investigation, or the Synopsis of all Natures in the Universe; (7) of Deduction to Practice, or of what is arranged relatively to man; (8) of the Preparations for Investigation; (9) of the Ascending and Descending Ladder of Axioms. 22. First among Prerogative Instances we will set forth Solitary Instances. Those are Solitary which (1) exhibit the Nature under Investigation, in those subjects which have nothing in common with other subjects except that Nature itself: or again, (2) those which do not exhibit the Nature under Investigation, in those subjects which are like in all points to other subjects, except in that Nature itself. For it is clear that instances of this kind remove doubt, and accelerate and strengthen the Exclusive part: so that a few of them are a host. (1) For example: In Investigation into the Nature of Colour; Sol...« less