The Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Physical Science: A Historical and Critical EssayHarcourt, Brace, 1925 - 349 páginas |
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... moving easily about it ; even the keenest scientific investigators of ancient times dared not suggest that the sun was a twentieth of its actual distance from the earth . What more natural than to hold that these regular , shining ...
... moving easily about it ; even the keenest scientific investigators of ancient times dared not suggest that the sun was a twentieth of its actual distance from the earth . What more natural than to hold that these regular , shining ...
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... move to diverse ports o'er the great sea of being , and each one with instinct given it to bear it on . This beareth the fire toward the moon ; this is the mover in the hearts of things that die ; this doth draw the earth together and ...
... move to diverse ports o'er the great sea of being , and each one with instinct given it to bear it on . This beareth the fire toward the moon ; this is the mover in the hearts of things that die ; this doth draw the earth together and ...
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... moves the sun and the other stars . " 1 Compare with this an excerpt from a representative contemporary philosopher of influence , which embodies a rather extreme statement of the doctrine of man widely current in modern times . After ...
... moves the sun and the other stars . " 1 Compare with this an excerpt from a representative contemporary philosopher of influence , which embodies a rather extreme statement of the doctrine of man widely current in modern times . After ...
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... clearly been moving in this direction : just as it was thoroughly natural for medieval thinkers to view nature as subservient to man's knowledge , purpose , and destiny ; so now it has become natural to view IO INTRODUCTION.
... clearly been moving in this direction : just as it was thoroughly natural for medieval thinkers to view nature as subservient to man's knowledge , purpose , and destiny ; so now it has become natural to view IO INTRODUCTION.
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... moving in space and time under the impress of forces as he had defined them , their behaviour was now , as a result of his labours , fully explicable in terms of exact mathematics . It may be , however , that Newton is an exceedingly ...
... moving in space and time under the impress of forces as he had defined them , their behaviour was now , as a result of his labours , fully explicable in terms of exact mathematics . It may be , however , that Newton is an exceedingly ...
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Página 214 - We are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances. To this purpose the philosophers say that Nature does nothing in vain, and more is in vain when less will serve; for Nature is pleased with simplicity, and affects not the pomp of superfluous causes.
Página 284 - ... the main business of natural philosophy is to argue from phenomena without feigning hypotheses and to deduce causes from effects till we come to the very first cause, which certainly is not mechanical; and not only to unfold the mechanism of the world, but chiefly to resolve these and such like questions.
Página 306 - ... all those bodies which compose the mighty frame of the world, have not any subsistence without a mind, that their being is to be perceived or known ; that consequently so long as they are not actually perceived by me, or do not exist in my mind or that of any other created spirit, they must either have no existence at all, or else subsist in the mind of some eternal spirit...
Página 214 - I frame no hypotheses; for whatever is not deduced from the phenomena is to be called an hypothesis; and hypotheses, whether metaphysical or physical, whether of occult qualities or mechanical, have no place in experimental philosophy.
Página 219 - But to derive two or three general principles of motion from phaenomena, and afterwards to tell us how the properties and actions of all corporeal things follow from those manifest principles, would be a very great step in philosophy, though the causes of those principles were not yet discovered. And therefore I scruple not to propose the principles of motion above mentioned, they being of very general extent, and leave their causes to be found out.
Página 285 - WHEN I wrote my treatise about our system, I had an eye upon such principles as might work with considering men for the belief of a Deity ; and nothing can rejoice me more than to find it useful for that purpose.
Página 259 - ... a powerful everliving Agent; who, being in all places, is more able by his will to move the bodies within his boundless uniform sensorium, and thereby to form and reform the parts of the universe, than we are by our will to move the parts of our own bodies.
Página 9 - Brief and powerless is Man's life ; on him and all his race the slow, sure doom falls pitiless and dark. Blind to good and evil, reckless of destruction, omnipotent matter rolls on its relentless way...
Página 8 - Within its depths I saw ingathered, bound by love in one volume, the scattered leaves of all the universe; substance and accidents and their relations, as though together fused, after such fashion that what I tell of is one simple flame.
Página 229 - All these things being considered, it seems probable to me that God in the beginning formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, movable particles, of such sizes and figures, and with such other properties and in such proportion to space as most conduced to the end for which he formed them...