[Xmca-l] Re: Bacon's Law

[Andy Blunden]

Nice aphorism, David, and it is a plausible candidate for
Vygotsky's meaning, but Bacon had lots of aphorisms. Do we
have a reference to this being referred to as "Bacon's Law"?

Andy

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Andy Blunden
http://www.ethicalpolitics.org/ablunden/index.htm
On 21/08/2018 8:43 PM, David Kellogg wrote:
> Natura non vincitur nisi parendo” (Nature cannot be
> vanquished until she is obeyed). is Aphorism 3 of Book 1
> of Novum Organum Scientiarum. Vygotsky was impressed by
> this aphorism and wanted to use it as the epigraph for a
> book on the history of the cultural development of the
> child, which later became The History of the Development
> of the Higher Mental Functions.
>
>
> David Kellogg
> Sangmyung University
>
> New in /Early Years/, co-authored with Fang Li:
>
> When three fives are thirty-five: Vygotsky in a Hallidayan
> idiom … and maths in the grandmother tongue 
>
> Some free e-prints available at:
>
> https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/7I8zYW3qkEqNBA66XAwS/full
>
>
>
> On Tue, Aug 21, 2018 at 7:19 PM, Ulvi İçil
> <ulvi.icil@gmail.com <mailto:ulvi.icil@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     There should be some sentences by Bacon about theory
>     and practice saying something how he conceives theory
>     and how "by a sloping path" practice becomes conceived. 
>     Anyone remembering or knowing it please?
>
>     Ulvi
>
>     21 Ağu 2018 11:23 AM tarihinde "Andy Blunden"
>     <andyb@marxists.org <mailto:andyb@marxists.org>> yazdı:
>
>         In
>         https://www.marxists.org/archive/vygotsky/works/1931/self-control.htm
>         <https://www.marxists.org/archive/vygotsky/works/1931/self-control.htm>,
>         Vygotsky refers to "Bacon's Law." Maybe one can
>         guess from this and the other reference to Bacon
>         what Vygotsky means by "Bacon's Law," but is there
>         anyone who can actually give me the source in Bacon?
>
>         Andy
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>         Andy Blunden
>         http://www.ethicalpolitics.org/ablunden/index.htm
>         <http://www.ethicalpolitics.org/ablunden/index.htm>
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