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" Veritas in puteo, truth lies in a well; and to carry on this metaphor we may very justly say, that logic does, as it were, supply us with steps whereby we may go down to reach the water; or it frames the links of a chain, whereby we may draw the water... "
Logick: Or, The Right Use of Reason in the Enquiry After Truth: With a ... - Page 2
by Isaac Watts - 1736 - 365 pages
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Treasury of Wisdom, Wit and Humor, Odd Comparisons and Proverbs: Authors ...

Quotations, English - 1891 - 556 pages
...ancients, "Truth lies in a well ;" and to carry on this metaphor, we may justly say that logic does supply us with steps, whereby we may go down to reach the water. Dr. I. Watts. DEFINITIONS OF. Logic is the science of the laws of thought, as thought, — that is...
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A Dictionary of Thoughts: Being a Cyclopedia of Laconic Quotations from the ...

Tryon Edwards - Quotations, English - 1908 - 788 pages
...Kempis. "truth lies in a well"; and to carry on the metaphor, we may justly say, that logio supplies e and scorn ; the power of calm reliance in scenes of da — Watt». Logic is the science of the laws of thought as thought, that is, of the necessary conditions...
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A Dictionary of Thoughts: Being a Cyclopedia of Laconic Quotations from the ...

Tryon Edwards - Quotations, English - 1908 - 774 pages
...Kempis. " truth lies in a well "; and to carry on the metaphor, we may justly say, that logic supplies eating and drinking and sleeping from one day and night — Watts. Logic is the science of the laws of thought as thought, that is, of the necessary conditions...
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Mass Transport in Solids and Fluids

David S. Wilkinson - Science - 2000 - 292 pages
...ancients that 'truth lies in a well'; and to carry on the metaphor, we may justly add, that logic supplies us with steps whereby we may go down to reach the water. Isaac Watts Pick's Pirst Law is still valid even when steady-state conditions do not exist. However,...
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Civilization's Quotations: Life's Ideal

Richard Alan Krieger - Electronic books - 2007 - 344 pages
...ancients, that 'truth lies in a well'; and to carry on the metaphor, we may justly say, that logic supplies us with steps whereby we may go down to reach the water." — Isaac Watts "One of the best things to come out of the home computer revolution could be the general...
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