What does pretergeneration mean?
Pretergeneration means (rare) Preternatural generation; monstrous birth.
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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
(rare) Preternatural generation; monstrous birth.
In the Novum Organum Bacon made a threefold division of natural history: the first being concerned with species, the second with monsters, and the third with artificial products; or the history of generation, pretergeneration and arts.
Because Bacon does not provide any analysis of pretergenerations in his natural histories, I claim that the process of generating artificial individuals that deviate from their species exhibits important aspects of Bacon's view on how nature is constrained and deviated from its own course.
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Pretergeneration means (rare) Preternatural generation; monstrous birth.
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In the Novum Organum Bacon made a threefold division of natural history: the first being concerned with species, the second with monsters, and the third with artificial products; or the history of generation, pretergeneration and arts.
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