The Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences: Founded Upon Their History, Τόμος 1J. W. Parker, 1847 |
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Σελίδα xxii
... Relations . 4 . Musical Standard . Sect . III . Scales of Colour . Art . 5 . 6 . The Prismatic Scale . Newton's Scale . 7 . Scales of Impure Colours . 8 . Chromatometer . Sect . IV . Scales of Light . Art . 9 . Photometer . 10 ...
... Relations . 4 . Musical Standard . Sect . III . Scales of Colour . Art . 5 . 6 . The Prismatic Scale . Newton's Scale . 7 . Scales of Impure Colours . 8 . Chromatometer . Sect . IV . Scales of Light . Art . 9 . Photometer . 10 ...
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... relations or successive occurrences , be the subject of our attention , we can point out certain universal characters which belong to truth , certain general laws which have regulated its progress among men . And we naturally expect ...
... relations or successive occurrences , be the subject of our attention , we can point out certain universal characters which belong to truth , certain general laws which have regulated its progress among men . And we naturally expect ...
Σελίδα 23
... relations among our own Thoughts . Inductive Truths are re- lations which we discern among existing Things ; and thus , this opposition of Deduction and Induction is again an aspect of the Fundamental Antithesis already spoken of . SECT ...
... relations among our own Thoughts . Inductive Truths are re- lations which we discern among existing Things ; and thus , this opposition of Deduction and Induction is again an aspect of the Fundamental Antithesis already spoken of . SECT ...
Σελίδα 25
... relations appear to separate the members of the antithesis most distinctly are Ideas and Sensations . We see and hear and touch external things , and thus perceive them by our senses ; but in perceiving them , we connect the impressions ...
... relations appear to separate the members of the antithesis most distinctly are Ideas and Sensations . We see and hear and touch external things , and thus perceive them by our senses ; but in perceiving them , we connect the impressions ...
Σελίδα 32
... relations of position and equiva- lence among the elements of vegetable forms , by which so many of their resemblances and differences may be explained . Such a symbol is not an Idea in that general sense in which we propose to use the ...
... relations of position and equiva- lence among the elements of vegetable forms , by which so many of their resemblances and differences may be explained . Such a symbol is not an Idea in that general sense in which we propose to use the ...
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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...