History of the Inductive Sciences: From the Earliest to the Present Times, Volumen1J.W. Parker, 1837 |
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... follow into consequences . A series of speculators who pursue such a course , may properly be termed a School , and their philosophy a School Philosophy ; whether their agreement in such a mode of seeking knowledge arise from personal ...
... follow into consequences . A series of speculators who pursue such a course , may properly be termed a School , and their philosophy a School Philosophy ; whether their agreement in such a mode of seeking knowledge arise from personal ...
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... follows that both it and other things , with reference to themselves and to each other , all and in all respects , both are and are not , both appear and appear not . " Yet the method of Plato , so far as concerns truth of that kind ...
... follows that both it and other things , with reference to themselves and to each other , all and in all respects , both are and are not , both appear and appear not . " Yet the method of Plato , so far as concerns truth of that kind ...
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... follow the import of a large portion of the work with sufficient clearness to apprehend the character and principles of the reasoning ; and this is what I shall endeavour to do . The author's introductory statement of his view of the ...
... follow the import of a large portion of the work with sufficient clearness to apprehend the character and principles of the reasoning ; and this is what I shall endeavour to do . The author's introductory statement of his view of the ...
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... follow him in his inference . He adds , He adds , " we must proceed , therefore , from universal to particular . And some- thing of this , " he pursues , " may be seen in lan- guage ; for names signify things in a general and indefinite ...
... follow him in his inference . He adds , He adds , " we must proceed , therefore , from universal to particular . And some- thing of this , " he pursues , " may be seen in lan- guage ; for names signify things in a general and indefinite ...
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... follows from the relation of causes and effects . Again , " motion must go on constantly , and , there- 7 Physic . Ausc . viii . 1. p . 251 . 8 Physic . Ausc . viii . 6. p . 258 . fore , must be either continuous or successive . Now ...
... follows from the relation of causes and effects . Again , " motion must go on constantly , and , there- 7 Physic . Ausc . viii . 1. p . 251 . 8 Physic . Ausc . viii . 6. p . 258 . fore , must be either continuous or successive . Now ...
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History of the Inductive Sciences from the Earliest to the Present Time William Whewell Vista de fragmentos - 1866 |
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Página 178 - Rather admire; or if they list to try Conjecture, he his fabric of the Heavens Hath left to their disputes, perhaps to move His laughter at their quaint opinions wide Hereafter, when they come to model Heaven And calculate the stars, how they will wield The mighty frame; how build, unbuild, contrive To save appearances; how gird the sphere With centric and eccentric scribbled o'er, Cycle and epicycle, orb in orb...
Página 425 - Malo me Galatea petit, lasciva puella, et fugit ad salices, et se cupit ante videri.
Página xxxiv - But a just story of learning, containing the antiquities and originals of knowledges and their sects, their inventions, their traditions, their diverse administrations and managings, their flourishings, their oppositions, decays, depressions, oblivions, removes, with the causes and occasions of them, and all other events concerning learning, throughout the ages of the world, I may truly affirm to be wanting.
Página 234 - Heav'n before, Shrinks to her second cause, and is no more. Physic of Metaphysic begs defence, And Metaphysic calls for aid on Sense! See Mystery to Mathematics fly! In vain! they gaze, turn giddy, rave, and die, Religion blushing veils her sacred fires, And unawares Morality expires.
Página 234 - Before her, fancy's gilded clouds decay, And all its varying rainbows die away. Wit shoots in vain its momentary fires, The meteor drops, and in a flash expires. As one by one, at dread Medea's strain, The sick'ning stars fade off th' ethereal plain; As Argus
Página 36 - Pythagoreans, from the contrasts which number suggests, collected ten principles, — Limited and Unlimited, Odd and Even, One and Many, Right and Left, Male and Female, Rest and Motion, Straight and Curved, Light and Darkness, Good and Evil, Square and Oblong. We shall see hereafter, that Aristotle himself deduced the doctrine of four elements, and other dogmas, by oppositions of the same kind.
Página 253 - It is not through ignorance of the things admired by them, but through contempt of their useless labour, that we think little of these matters, turning our souls to the exercise of better things.
Página 410 - And in like manner, when a ray of light falls upon the surface of any pellucid body, and is there refracted or reflected, may not waves of vibrations, or tremors, be thereby excited in the refracting or reflecting medium at the point of incidence...
Página 511 - This index of refraction is still more materially affected when a body passes from the solid to the liquid, or from the liquid to the gaseous condition...
Página 40 - Aristotle, in a passage already cited, "decides that there is no void on such arguments as this : in a void there could be no difference of up and down; for as in nothing there are no differences, so there are none in a privation or negation; but a void is merely a privation or negation...