 Men may dream in demonstrations, and cut out an illusory world in the shape of axioms, definitions, and propositions, with a final exclusion of fact signed QED No formulas for thinking will save us mortals from mistake in our imperfect apprehension of...  Making Meaning: "Printers of the Mind" and Other Essaysby Donald Francis McKenzie - 2002 - 286 pagesNo preview available - About this book
 | George Eliot - England - 1876 - 468 pages
...concluding that its net will now at last be large BOOK VI.—REVELATIONS. 209 enough to hold the universe. Men may dream in demonstrations, and cut out an illusory...apprehension of the matter to be thought about. And since the unemotional intellect may carry us into a mathematical dreamland where nothing is but what... | |
 | George Eliot - England - 1876 - 410 pages
...hallucinations, too hastily concluding tliat its net will now at last be large enough to hold the universe. Men may dream in demonstrations, and cut out an illusory...apprehension of the matter to be thought about. And since the unemotional intellect may carry us into a mathematical dreamland where nothing is but what... | |
 | George Eliot - England - 1876 - 298 pages
...hallucinations, too hastily concluding that its net will now at last be large enough to hold the universe. Men may dream in demonstrations, and cut out an illusory...will save us mortals from mistake in our imperfect apprehenA more plausible reason for putting discipleship out of the question was the strain of visionary... | |
 | George Eliot - England - 1876 - 444 pages
...net will now at last be large enough to hold the universe. Men may dream in demonstrations, and eut out an illusory world in the shape of axioms, definitions, and propositions, with a final exelusion of faet signed QED No formulas for thinking will save us mortals from mistake in our imperfeet... | |
 | George Eliot - 1877 - 438 pages
...hallucinations, too hastily concluding that its net will now at last be large enough to hold the universe. Men may dream in demonstrations, and cut out an illusory...apprehension of the matter to be thought about. And since the unemotional intellect may carry us into a mathematical dream-land where nothing is but what... | |
 | Mary Ann Evans - 1884 - 636 pages
...hallucinations, too hastily concluding that its net will now at last be large enough to hold the universe. Men may dream in demonstrations, and cut out an illusory...apprehension of the matter to be thought about. And since the unemotional intellect may carry us into a mathematical dreamland where nothing is but what... | |
 | George Eliot - English literature - 1894 - 424 pages
...hallucinations, too hastily concluding that its net will now at last be large enough to hold the universe. Men may dream in demonstrations, and cut out an illusory...apprehension of the matter to be thought about. And since the unemotional intellect may carry us into a mathematical dreamland where nothing is but what... | |
 | George Eliot - 1894 - 414 pages
...hallucinations, too hastily concluding that its net will now at last be large enough to hold the universe. Men may dream in demonstrations, and cut out an illusory...apprehension of the matter to be thought about. And since the unemotional intellect may carry us into a mathematical dreamland where nothing is but what... | |
 | George Eliot - 1900 - 314 pages
...hallucinations, too hastily concluding that its net will now at last be large enough to hold the universe. Men may dream in demonstrations, and cut out an illusory...apprehension of the matter to be thought about. And since the unemotional intellect may carry us into a mathematical dreamland where nothing is but what... | |
 | George Eliot - 1900 - 442 pages
...hallucinations, too hastily concluding that its net will now at last be large enough to hold the universe. Men may dream in demonstrations, and cut out an illusory...apprehension of the matter to be thought about. And since the unemotional intellect may carry us into a mathematical dreamland where nothing is but what... | |
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