The Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences: Founded Upon Their History, Τόμος 1J. W. Parker, 1847 |
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... questions , which have been accumulated by the profoundest and acutest thinkers of all ages . To this I reply , that without at all disparaging the value or importance of the labours of those who have previously written respecting the ...
... questions , which have been accumulated by the profoundest and acutest thinkers of all ages . To this I reply , that without at all disparaging the value or importance of the labours of those who have previously written respecting the ...
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... questions in which men have at any time busied themselves . And even if these can now be made clearer and plainer than of yore , still they can be made so only by means of men- tal discipline and mental effort . Moreover this analysis ...
... questions in which men have at any time busied themselves . And even if these can now be made clearer and plainer than of yore , still they can be made so only by means of men- tal discipline and mental effort . Moreover this analysis ...
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... question , What truth is , and How we are to recognize it ; with complaints concerning the hopeless- ness and unprofitableness of such researches . We have , at least , a definite problem before us . We have to examine the structure and ...
... question , What truth is , and How we are to recognize it ; with complaints concerning the hopeless- ness and unprofitableness of such researches . We have , at least , a definite problem before us . We have to examine the structure and ...
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... question naturally occurs , What is the nature , the principle , the law of this Transformation ? In what faculty resides the transforming power ? What train of ideas of beauty , and symmetry , and stability , in the mind of the ...
... question naturally occurs , What is the nature , the principle , the law of this Transformation ? In what faculty resides the transforming power ? What train of ideas of beauty , and symmetry , and stability , in the mind of the ...
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... question whether those can be made to agree with these . he sees . he does so . We may , as I have said , illustrate this matter by considering man as interpreting the phenomena which He often interprets without being aware that Thus ...
... question whether those can be made to agree with these . he sees . he does so . We may , as I have said , illustrate this matter by considering man as interpreting the phenomena which He often interprets without being aware that Thus ...
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Σελίδα 278 - Secondly, such qualities which in truth are nothing in the objects themselves but powers to produce various sensations in us by their primary qualities, ie by the bulk, figure, texture, and motion of their insensible parts, as colours, sounds, tastes, &c.
Σελίδα 384 - Have not the small particles of bodies certain powers, virtues, or forces by which they act at a distance, not only upon the rays of light for reflecting, refracting, and inflecting them, but also upon one another for producing a great part of the phenomena of nature?
Σελίδα 429 - All these things being considered, it seems probable to me that God, in the beginning, formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, moveable particles, of such sizes and figures, and with such other properties, and in such proportions to space, as most conduced to the end for which He formed them...
Σελίδα 429 - ... even so very hard as never to wear or break in pieces, no ordinary power being able to divide what God himself made one in the first creation.
Σελίδα 52 - Words convey the mental treasures of one period to the generations that follow ; and laden with this, their precious freight, they sail safely across gulfs of time in which empires have suffered shipwreck, and the languages of common life have sunk into oblivion.
Σελίδα 19 - Parallelograms upon the same base and between the same parallels, are equal to one another.
Σελίδα 429 - While the particles continue entire, they may compose bodies of one and the same nature and texture in all ages: but should they wear away, or break in pieces, the nature of things, depending on them, would be changed.
Σελίδα 278 - Qualities thus considered in bodies are, first, such as are utterly inseparable from the body, in what estate soever it be ; such as in all the alterations and changes it suffers, all the force can be used upon it, it constantly keeps; and such as sense constantly finds in every particle of matter which has bulk enough to be perceived, and the mind finds inseparable from every particle of matter, though less than to make itself singly be perceived by our senses...
Σελίδα 42 - knows that there is a mask of theory over the whole face of " nature, if it be theory to infer more than we see. But other •' men, unaware of this masquerade, hold it to be a fact that " they see cubes and spheres, spacious apartments and winding " avenues. And these things are facts to them, because they " are unconscious of the mental operation by which they have " penetrated nature's disguise2".
Σελίδα 419 - ... that dephlogisticated or pure air is composed of water deprived of its phlogiston and united to elementary heat and light...