...when formulated by man."1 Bacon says, "Men believe that Their reason is laid over their words, but it happens, too, that words exercise a reciprocal and...understanding of the wisest and mightily entangle and pervert judgment."2 Philosophy should be given a place beside science in the teacher's thinking and the two...

...Max Miiller, Lectures, J. Preface) : 'Men believe that their reason is lord over their words, but it happens, too, that words exercise a reciprocal and...understanding of the wisest, and mightily entangle and pervert their Judgment." Naming a thing is not the same as designating or denoting it. I can describe something...

...colleagues, and perhaps that simplified his task. "Certain it is that words, as a Tartar's bow, do shoot back upon the understanding of the wisest, and mightily entangle and pervert the judgment." While precious months were being devoted to framing the draft covenant of the League of Nations, Commissions...

...modern philosophy. "I quote from Bacon: 'Men believe that their reason is lord over their words, but it happens, too, that words exercise a reciprocal and...wisest, and mightily entangle and pervert the judgment.' "The advance of true philosophy depends here, as everywhere, on a true definition of our words. They...

...'Men believe that their reason is lord over their words, but it happens, too, that words exer40 cise a reciprocal and reactionary power over our intellect....wisest, and mightily entangle and pervert the judgment.' "The advance of true philosophy depends here, as everywhere, on a true definition of our words. They...

...an example of such intermediate use of comparison: 'certain it is that words, as a Tartar's bow, do shoot back upon the understanding of the wisest, and mightily entangle and pervert the judgment' [III, 396]. I have not discussed such comparisons. They appear to be of the strictly traditional type...

...that, Although we think we govern our words, . . . certain it is that words, as a Tartar's bow, do shoot back upon the understanding of the wisest, and mightily entangle and pervert the judgment. So that it is almost necessary, in all controversies and disputations, to imitate the wisdom of the...

...well loquendum ut vulgus sentiendum ut sapientes, yet certain it is that words, as a tartar's bow, do shoot back upon the understanding of the wisest and mightily entangle and pervert the judgment' (1605: 134). Bacon's unequivocal subscribing to the Aristotelian doctrine of the sign - with a degree...

...universally regarded as a source of reason: "Men believe that their reason is lord over their words, but it happens, too, that words exercise a reciprocal and...wisest, and mightily entangle and pervert the judgment (Francis Bacon, quoted in Sprinker. l980, pi l3l." We recognise only too well that language need not...

...Understanding Although we think we govern our words, . . . certain it is that words, as a Tartar's bow, do shoot back upon the understanding of the wisest, and mightily entangle and pervert the judgement. So that it is almost necessary, in all controversies and disputations, to imitate the wisdom...