...be equal to that of a definite column of water, or when STAHL, at a later period, converted metals into lime, and reconverted lime into metal, by the...They learned that reason only perceives that which it pro- duces afier its own design ; that it must not be content to follow, as it were, in the leading-strings...

...of certain elements — they recognized the importance of the truth which had been taught by Bacon, that reason only perceives that which it produces after its own design ; and that it must not be content to follow, as it were, the leading strings of nature, but must proceed...

...mind's constructive activity. Kant himself had bestowed praise on Galileo and others because they had 'learned that reason only perceives that which it produces after its own i 20) design, ' and later many of Kant's successors — from Fichte to Marx and beyond — were to...

...calculated beforehand to be THE LEGACY OF NUREMBERG 9 equal to that of a definite column of water, ... a light broke upon all natural philosophers. They...must not be content to follow, as it were, in the leading strings of nature, but must proceed in advance with principles of judgement according to unvarying...

...water, or when Stahl. at a later period, converted metals into lime and reconverted lime into metal, by addition and subtraction of certain elements; a light...nature, but must proceed in advance with principles of judgement according to unvarying laws, and compel nature to reply to its questions. For accidental...

...Concerning the empirical sciences, Kant mentions the work of Galileo, Torricelli and Stahl and says: 'reason only perceives that which it produces after...own design; that it must not be content to follow ... in the leading-strings of nature but must proceed in advance with principles of judgement according...

...necessary, lawlike pattern we must attribute to it. He speaks of Galileo, Copernicus, and Torricelli: They learned that reason only perceives that which...must not be content to follow, as it were, in the leading strings of nature, but must proceed in advance with principles of judgment according to unvarying...

...be equal to that of a definite column of water, or when STAHL, at a later period, converted metals into lime, and reconverted lime into metal, by the addition and subtraction of certain elements;8 a light broke upon all natural philosophers. They learned that reason only perceives that...

...lead at the end of the Middle Ages, such as Bacon and Galileo, Kant (1934 [1781]: 10) goes on to say, 'learned that reason only perceives that which it produces after its own design'. Having acquired this knowledge, they realised also that they 'must not content to follow ... in the...