在形成公理的过程中所犯的错误,与抽象概念和一般归纳所依赖的首要原则所犯的错误的程度是一样的。从三段论推导出来的公理和次命题更是如此。 There is the same degree of licentiousness and error in forming axioms as [there is] in abstracting notions, and [also] in the first principles, which depend in common induction [versus Bacon's induction]; still more is this the case in axioms and inferior propositions derived from syllogisms.[1]
麦克斯·霍克海默与狄奥多·阿多诺发现培根因为倾心有效程序而回避了「只会令人感到满足的知识」(knowledge that tendeth but to satisfaction)[13] 虽然培根法贬低思维的幻象(idols of the mind),但它对有效程序的要求迫使它对世俗权力采取一种轻信、顺从的姿态。
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权力以告知什么是真实的姿态来面对普罗大众。
Power confronts the individual as the universal, as the reason which informs reality.[14]
知识就是力量,无论是对造物的奴役,还是对世俗主人的顺从,它都无所不知。
Knowledge, which is power, knows no limits, either in its enslavement of creation or in its deference to worldly masters.[15]
The metaphysical apologia at least betrayed the injustice of the established order through the incongruence of concept and reality. The impartiality of scientific language deprived what was powerless of the strength to make itself heard and merely provided the existing order with a neutral sign for itself. Such neutrality is more metaphysical than metaphysics.[16]
^von Linné, Carl. Nemesis Divina. Edited and Translated with Explanatory Notes by M. J. Petry. Springer. 31 May 2001: 45 [2020-08-06]. ISBN 978-0-7923-6820-5. (原始内容存档于2014-01-03).
^Or "frame" no hypotheses (as traditionally translated at vol.2, p.392, in the 1729 English version).
^"Even those that have sought knowledge for itself and not for benefit, or ostentation, or any practical enablement in the course of their life, have nevertheless propounded to themselves a wrong mark, namely, satisfaction, which men call truth, and not operation."
Valerius Terminus: Of the Interpretation of Nature
^Das Wissen, das Macht ist, kennt keine Schranken, weder in der Versklavung der Kreatur noch in der Willfähigkeit gegen die Herren der Welt. ibid, p. 2
^Die metaphysische Apologie verriet die Ungerechtigkeit des Bestehenden wenigstens durch die Inkongruenz von Begriff und Wirklichkeit. In der Unparteilichkeit der wissenschaftlichen Sprache hat das Ohnmächtige vollends die Kraft verloren, sich Ausdruck zu verschaffen, und bloß das Bestehende findet ihr neutrales Zeichen. Solche Neutralität ist metaphysischer als die Metaphysik. ibid, p. 17