[Ads-l] "furniture of the world" 1674

[Stephen Goranson]

Speaking of furniture, Errol Morris wrote asking about the origin of the collocation "furniture of the world" in philosophy, note 4 [1].

Here's an earlier use than he mentioned in a translation of Bacon [2].


Stephen

[1]http://bostonreview.net/philosophy-religion/errol-morris-there-such-thing-truth

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Is There Such a Thing as Truth? | Boston Review<http://bostonreview.net/philosophy-religion/errol-morris-there-such-thing-truth>
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It has now been over fifty years since the publication of Thomas Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962), a book considered by many to be one of the seminal works of the twentieth century. I do not regard it as such. Although it has spawned thousands of worshipful articles and books ...


[2]https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt/search?q1=%22furniture%20of%20the%20world%22;id=uc2.ark%3A%2F13960%2Ft0ht2wj5t;view=1up;seq=5;start=1;sz=10;page=search;orient=0


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