Genre:

Regular Feature, Abstract

Subjects:

Ancient Authorities, Induction, Natural History

    Comments that although 'Aristotle was accused by Bacon of ignoring induction from observed facts, and trusting over much to deduction à priori [...] this is a strange perversion of the truth'. Indeed, 'Few philosophers have been so careful to base their conclusions on a firm foundation of concrete facts', and Aristotle 'accumulated an immense amount of observation on the structure and habits of animals, in order to write his works on natural history'. (177)