| fashion. The other derives axioms
| from the senses and particulars,
| rising by a gradual and unbroken
| ascent, so that it arrives at the
| most general axioms last of all. This
| is the true way, but as yet untried.
| (IV, 50)
|
| When it is left to itself, the
| understanding follows the first way,
| hastily applies itself to reality and
| generates ANTICIPATIONS OF NATURE.
| But "that reason which is elicited
| from facts by a just and
| methodological process, I call
| INTERPRETATION OF NATURE" (IV, 51).
|
| Taken as a whole, Bacon's critique
| comes to this: from a formal point of
| view, Aristotle's syllogism is
| essentially a logic for deductive
| reasoning, which goes from the
| principles to the consequences, from
| the premises to the conclusions. And,
| of course, in this kind of reasoning,
| the truth of the conclusions is
| necessarily derived from the truth of
| the premises, so that knowledge will
| start with primary truths that are
| supposed to be necessary and