| John Aikin - 1808 - 730 sider
...deduced from phenomena, is to be called an hypothesis: and hypotheses, whether physical or metaphysical, whether of occult qualities or mechanical, have no place in experimental philosophy.' In this philosophy, propositions . are drawn from phenomena, and are rendered general by induction.... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1815 - 494 sider
...from phaenomena, is to be called an hypothesis : and hypotheses, whether physical or metaphysical, whether of occult qualities or mechanical, have no place in experimental philosophy." In this philosophy, propositions are drawn from phaenomena, and are rendered general by induction.... | |
| Charles Hutton - 1815 - 686 sider
...able to discover the cause of those properties of gravity from phenomena, and I frame no hypotheses. For whatever is not deduced from the phenomena, is...mechanical, have no place in experimental philosophy. In this philosophy, particular propositions are inferred from the phenomena, and afterwards rendered... | |
| 1815 - 488 sider
...from phaenomena, is to be called an hypothesis : and hypotheses, whether physical or metaphysical, whether of occult qualities or mechanical, have no place in experimental philosophy." In this philosophy, propositions are drawn from phaenomena, and are rendered general by induction.... | |
| Johann Jakob Brucker - 1819 - 618 sider
...deduced from phenomena, is to be called an hypothesis : and hypotheses, whether physical or metaphysical, whether of occult qualities or mechanical, have no place in experimental philosophy." In this philosophy, propositions are drawn from plucitomom, and are rendered general by inThc Motions... | |
| Frederick Beasley - 1822 - 584 sider
...extent by experiment and observation. " Whatever is not deduced from the phenomena," says Newton, " is to be called an hypothesis; and hypotheses, whether...mechanical, have no place in experimental philosophy." In this, therefore, lies the true secret of this new method of investigation, that our conclusions... | |
| Library - 1827 - 712 sider
...deduced from phenomena, is to be called an hypothesis : and hypotheses, whether physical or metaphysical, whether of occult qualities or mechanical, have no place in experimental philosophy." In this philosophy, propositions are drawn from phenomena, and are rendered general by induction. This... | |
| Thomas Exley - 1829 - 532 sider
...deduced from phenomena, is to be called an hypothesis : and hypotheses, whether physical or metaphysical, whether of occult qualities, or mechanical, have no place in experimental philosophy.''' The essential nature of what we call attraction and repulsion does not concern us : that certain powers... | |
| Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell - 1856 - 288 sider
...gravity from phenomena, and I frame no hypotheses ; for whatever is not deduced from phenomena is'called hypothesis ; and hypotheses, whether metaphysical...mechanical, have no place in experimental philosophy. In this philosophy, particular propositions are inferred from phenomena, and afterwards rendered general... | |
| Thomas Rawson Birks - 1862 - 254 sider
...both true, and sufficient to explain their appearance." He says further, at the close of the work : " Whatever is not deduced from the phenomena is to be...mechanical, have no place in experimental philosophy." The rule, thus stated, is clearly open to a very weighty objection. If the true cause is already known,... | |
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