| 871908 Nov 19
Logic
I.i. 6
of what science, in its modern sense, really consists in; and
in here speaking of the members of the most enlightened of unscientific circles,
many of whom call themselves 'scientists,'--a word, by the way, that
very rarely drops from the lips of a genuine man of science;--but I
include not a few true scientific mean, besides. No doubt, all well
educated people, under-in this country , at least,-understand that
'science,' in its modern sense, is neither what the ancients
meant by scientia or επιστήμη, which was nearly what
we should call 'comprehension,' which a mental acquirement,
nor is it what Coleridge called 'science,' and defined as systematized
or organized knowledge,-knowledge this being, in truth, the
fossilized remains of science. They know, or the wisest of them do, | 871908 Nov 19
Logic
I.i. 6
of what science, in its modern sense, really consists in; and
in here speaking of the members of the most enlightened of unscientific circles,
many of whom call themselves 'scientists,'--a word, by the way, that
very rarely drops from the lips of a genuine man of science;--but I
include not a few true scientific mean, besides. No doubt, all well
educated people, under-in this country , at least,-understand that
'science,' in its modern sense, is neither what the ancients
meant by scientia or επιστήμη, which was nearly what
we should call 'comprehension,' which a mental acquirement,
nor is it what Coleridge called 'science,' and defined as systematized
or organized knowledge,-knowledge this being, in truth, the
fossilized remains of science. They know, or the wisest of them do, |
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