The Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences: Founded Upon Their History, Τόμος 1J. W. Parker, 1847 |
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Σελίδα xvii
... solid figure . Outline . 3 . Is an interpretation . 4 . May be analysed . 5 . 6 . 7 . Reversed convexity . Do we perceive Space by Touch ? 8. Brown's Opinion . 9. The Muscular Sense . 10. Bell's Opinion . 11. Perception includes ...
... solid figure . Outline . 3 . Is an interpretation . 4 . May be analysed . 5 . 6 . 7 . Reversed convexity . Do we perceive Space by Touch ? 8. Brown's Opinion . 9. The Muscular Sense . 10. Bell's Opinion . 11. Perception includes ...
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... solid and acknowledged certainty , and truths of which the discovery has been received with universal applause . These constitute what we com- monly term Sciences ; and of these bodies of exact and enduring knowledge , we have within ...
... solid and acknowledged certainty , and truths of which the discovery has been received with universal applause . These constitute what we com- monly term Sciences ; and of these bodies of exact and enduring knowledge , we have within ...
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... solid foundation . With such a clear ground of confidence , we shall not be met with general assertions of the vagueness and uncertainty of human knowledge ; with the question , What truth is , and How we are to recognize it ; with ...
... solid foundation . With such a clear ground of confidence , we shall not be met with general assertions of the vagueness and uncertainty of human knowledge ; with the question , What truth is , and How we are to recognize it ; with ...
Σελίδα 25
... solid bodies , placed at various distances in space , we again exert an act of the mind upon them . When we see a body move , we see it move in a path or orbit , but this orbit is not itself seen ; it is constructed by the mind . In ...
... solid bodies , placed at various distances in space , we again exert an act of the mind upon them . When we see a body move , we see it move in a path or orbit , but this orbit is not itself seen ; it is constructed by the mind . In ...
Σελίδα 27
... solid But yet a little consideration will show us that an activity of the mind , and an activity according to certain Ideas , is requisite in all our knowledge of external objects . We see objects , of various solid forms , and at ...
... solid But yet a little consideration will show us that an activity of the mind , and an activity according to certain Ideas , is requisite in all our knowledge of external objects . We see objects , of various solid forms , and at ...
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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...