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Quote: evidence is to truth, as the sap to the tree; science, knowledge, and meaning are dependent on evidence of the senses

QuoteRef: hobbT_1650 , p. 28, Chap. VI.3



Group:
philosophy of science
Topic:
empirical truth
Topic:
what is truth

Quotation

Evidence is to truth, as the sap to the tree, which, so far as it creepeth along with the body and branches, keepeth them alive; where it forsaketh them, they die: for this evidence, which is meaning with our words, is the life of truth. 4. Knowledge thereof, which we call science, I define to be evidence of truth, from some beginning or principle of sense: for the truth of a proposition is never evident, until we conceive the meaning of the words or terms whereof it consisteth which are always conceptions of the mind; nor can we remember those conceptions, without the thing that produced the same by our senses.   Google-1   Google-2

Published before 1923


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