 | Francis Sydney Marvin - 1923 - Broj stranica: 362
...the generation of bees, judging from theory and from what are believed to be the facts about them; the facts, however, have not yet been sufficiently...only if what they affirm agrees with the observed facts.' The quantity of things Aristotle had spied into is truly extraordinary : he knew that certain... | |
 | Frederick Adam Wright - 1923 - Broj stranica: 244
...been sufficiently comprehended ; if ever they are, then credit must be given to observation rather than to theories, and to theories only if what they affirm agrees with observed facts. And with that quotation we may well leave him : Amicus Aristoteles; magis arnica veritas.... | |
 | C. Leon Harris - 1981 - Broj stranica: 360
...passage on the behavior of honeybees (On the Generation of Animals III. 10), when he remarked that "credit must be given rather to observation than to...only if what they affirm agrees with the observed facts." Galen performed experiments to demonstrate the function of the urinary bladder (On the Natural... | |
 | Kisor Kumar Chakrabarti - 1995 - Broj stranica: 252
...commitment to observation and collection of facts as well as the subordination of theories to facts: ... the facts, however, have not yet been sufficiently...only if what they affirm agrees with the observed facts. (760 b 30) This sums up the key features of a scientific method from an empiricistic point of... | |
 | May Sim - 1999 - Broj stranica: 292
...theory may be distorting the facts his theory is supposed to explain. "The facts," he admits, "have not been sufficiently grasped; if ever they are, then...given rather to observation than to theories, and to the theories only if what they affirm agrees with the observed facts" (760a29-34, Platt trans.). This... | |
 | Anthony Gottlieb - 2000 - Broj stranica: 490
...the generation of bees, judging from theory and from what are believed to be the facts about them; the facts, however, have not yet been sufficiently...only if what they affirm agrees with the observed facts. In general, he wrote elsewhere, 'We must survey what we have already said, bringing it to the... | |
 | Anthony Gottlieb - 2010 - Broj stranica: 479
...from what are believed to be the facts about them; the facts, however, have not yet been suff1ciently grasped; if ever they are, then credit must be given...only if what they affirm agrees with the observed facts. In general, he wrote elsewhere, 'We must survey what we have already said, bringing it to the... | |
 | Gareth B. Matthews - 2003 - Broj stranica: 156
...admits, uncharacteristically, 'have not been sufficiently grasped; if ever they are,' he continues, 'then credit must be given rather to observation than to theories, and to the theories only if what they affirm agrees with the observed facts' (76o-'29-341, Here is something... | |
 | Michael R. Matthews, Colin F. Gauld, Arthur Stinner - 2005 - Broj stranica: 574
...Plato's ordering of reason and observation. In his On the Generation of Animals, Aristotle remarks: Credit must be given rather to observation than to...and to theories only if what they affirm agrees with observed facts. (Barnes 1984. p. 1 178) This is also the commonsense understanding of science. Del... | |
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Such appears to be the truth about the generation of bees, judging from theory and from what are believed to be the facts about them; the facts, however, have not yet been sufficiently grasped; if ever they are, then credit must be given rather to observation... 