Roger Bacon Quotes About Doubt

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Argument is conclusive, but it does not remove doubt.
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Roger Bacon

Doubt Doe Argument

"Memorable Quotations: Philosophers of Western Civilization". Book edited by Carol Dingle, p. 21, 2000.

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There are two modes of acquiring knowledge, namely by reasoning and experience. Reasoning draws a conclusion and makes us grant the conclusion, but does not make the conclusion certain, nor does it remove doubt so that the mind may rest on the intuition of truth, unless the mind discovers it by the path of experience.
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Roger Bacon

Inspirational Two Doubt

1267 Opus Majus (translated by Robert Belle Burke, 1928).

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There are two modes of knowledge: through argument and through experience. Argument brings conclusions and compels us to concede them, but it does not cause certainty nor remove doubts that the mind may rest in truth, unless this is provided by experience.
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Roger Bacon

Education Two Doubt

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[I]f in other sciences we should arrive at certainty without doubt and truth without error, it behooves us to place the foundations of knowledge in mathematics, in so far as disposed through it we are able to reach certainty in other sciences and truth by the exclusion of error.
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Roger Bacon

Truth Science Errors

Opus Majus bk. 1, ch. 4 (ca. 1267) (translation by Robert Burke)

1587
Argument is conclusive, but it does not remove doubt, so that the mind may rest in the sure knowledge of the truth, unless it finds it by the method of experiment.
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Roger Bacon

Doubt Mind Doe

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