My philosophy professor colleague wrote to me (the day after I posted)
that his "face was red" and that he wasn't so sure after all. I had the
impression he was a student of Anderson's (or a student of a student of
his - I've forgotten) - chance's are he was putting two and two together
(memory of the story and memory of Anderson) and getting more than he
should have.
Stephen Black wrote:
>
> > Thom Brown wrote:
> >
> > >According to one of my colleagues, the passage is from Francis Bacon's
> > >"Novum Organon" - at least that is a claim from someone who is very
> > >familiar with the text in the Anderson edition.
>
> On Thu, 7 Oct 1999, Russell T. Hurlburt wrote:
>
> > I have looked through Novum Organum and its companions (Urbach and Gibson
> > translation) and have not been able to find the passage in question.
>
> Ah, another seeker after the truth. Guess what I've been doing this
> evening. My copy was the Anderson edition no less (Bacon, F. The New
> Organon and Related Writings, edited by Fulton H. Anderson, 1960). And
> no, horse's teeth are nowhere to be found within.
>
> This work is no page-turner, let me tell you. It makes Piaget look
> like Stephen King. So everyone else out there planning to curl up with
> this book: don't bother.
>
> Moreover, Bacon's style of discourse, at least judging from this work,
> seems quite unlike the quoted passage. Score so far: not-Bacon one,
> scholars, zero.
>
> -Stephen
>
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