... 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,... Lives of Eminent Persons - Página 33por Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain) - 1833 - 571 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| William Sedgwick - 1902 - 316 páginas
...things is to be found in Newton. For Newton said that "... the main business of Natural Philosophy is to argue from phenomena without feigning hypotheses, and to deduce causes from effects. . . ."l And Newton not only said that it was the main business of Natural Philosophy to deduce causes... | |
| Plato - 1905 - 556 páginas
...Discourse from Phenomena belongs to Experimental Philosophy. . . . The main business of Natural Philosophy is to argue from Phenomena without feigning Hypotheses,...very First Cause, which certainly is not mechanical. Besides the better Argument from Design which the reformed astronomy seemed to offer, there was also... | |
| George Hayward Joyce - 1908 - 448 páginas
.... . for 'explaining all things mechanically . . . whereas the ' main business of Natural Philosophy is to argue from ' phenomena without feigning hypotheses,...come to the very first cause, 'which certainly is not mechanical."2 It will be evident from these citations that the method employed by this greatest of... | |
| Ralph Allen Sampson - 1914 - 164 páginas
...to this question: (Qu. 28) — "the main Business of Natural Philosophy is to argue from Phaenohiena without feigning Hypotheses, and to deduce Causes...Effects, till we come to the very first Cause, which is certainly not mechanical. And not only to unfold the Mechanism of the World but chiefly to resolve... | |
| Ralph Allen Sampson - 1914 - 164 páginas
...to this question: (Qu. 28) — "the main Business of Natural Philosophy is to argue from Phaenomena without feigning Hypotheses, and to deduce Causes...Effects, till we come to the very first Cause, which is certainly not mechanical. And not only to unfold the Mechanism of the World but chiefly to resolve... | |
| Paul Carus - 1915 - 672 páginas
...mechanically and referring other causes to metaphysics : whereas the main business of natural philosophy is to argue from phenomena without feigning hypotheses...and whence is it that the sun and planets gravitate toward one another without dense matter between them? Whence is it that nature does nothing in vain... | |
| George Hayward Joyce - 1916 - 460 páginas
...... for ' explaining all things mechanically . . . whereas the ' main business of Natural Philosophy is to argue from ' phenomena without feigning hypotheses,...first cause, ' which certainly is not mechanical." z It will be evident from these citations that the method employed by this greatest of scientific discoverers... | |
| Dugald Stewart - 1921 - 660 páginas
...sentiments oo the present subject. " The main business of natural philosophy is to argue from phe" nomena, without feigning hypotheses, and to deduce causes...but chiefly to resolve these and such like questions : Whence is it " that Nature does nothing in vain ; and -whence arises all that order " and beauty... | |
| Edwin Arthur Burtt - 1925 - 382 páginas
...infinite scene of the d1vine knowledge and control. " Whereas the main business of natural philosophy is to argue from phenomena without feigning hypotheses,...chiefly to resolve these and such like questions. ... Is not the sensory of animals that place to which the sensitive substance is present, and into... | |
| Adolph Judah Snow - 1926 - 270 páginas
...mechanically, and referring other causes to Metaphysics. Whereas the main Business of Natural Philosophy is to argue from phenomena without feigning Hypotheses...cause, which certainly is not mechanical . . . and, though every step made in this Philosophy (Natural Philosophy) brings us not immediately to the Knowledge... | |
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