The Problem of Certainty in English Thought 1630–1690Springer Netherlands, 1963 - 159 páginas |
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... motion of the earth as a product of a superstitious mind . His main argument is that since it is true in scripture that the sun moves and the earth stands still the Copernican astronomy must be false ; were the astronomical account true ...
... motion of the earth as a product of a superstitious mind . His main argument is that since it is true in scripture that the sun moves and the earth stands still the Copernican astronomy must be false ; were the astronomical account true ...
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... motions of bodies can be made . It is enough , he says , that we know that gravity exists , is lawful , and serves to account for the motions of bodies . In attempting to account for gravitational motion in the twenty - first Query at ...
... motions of bodies can be made . It is enough , he says , that we know that gravity exists , is lawful , and serves to account for the motions of bodies . In attempting to account for gravitational motion in the twenty - first Query at ...
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... motion and gravitation and their consequences . His program was then to show that observed phenomena agree with the laws , which , in the case of gravity , they do . But since the laws deal with mass located at a point , he could ...
... motion and gravitation and their consequences . His program was then to show that observed phenomena agree with the laws , which , in the case of gravity , they do . But since the laws deal with mass located at a point , he could ...
Contenido
The Theory of Certainty Secularized | 49 |
The Theory of Certainty in its Scientific Context | 90 |
15 | 96 |
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absolute certainty accepted admits argues arguments Aristotelian assent assurance atheism Bacon belief causes Chillingworth and Tillotson Christian Church claims concerning conclusions controversy degree of certainty demonstration Descartes developed doctrine doubt error Essay existence experience faculties Francis Bacon Glanvill's human Hume hypothesis Ibid ideas idols infallible certainty intuition John Locke John Tillotson John Wilkins Joseph Glanvill judgment justified kind of certainty kind of evidence kind of proof known levels of certainty Locke's London man's mathematical matters of fact metaphysical mind moral certainty Natural Philosophy Natural Religion Newton Novum Organum object observed occurs Opticks Oxford physical possible present Principia principles probability problem of certainty propositions reason relation religious Robert Boyle Robert Hooke Royal Society Rule of Faith Sadducismus Triumphatus says Scholium scripture sense perception Seventeenth Century skepticism structure of nature testimony theological theory of certainty true truth understanding Vanity of Dogmatizing views William Chillingworth witches writings