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 | René Descartes - 1880 - 498 pages
...truth of the thing, we may say, in order to give it a determinate nature, that it is the transporting of one part of matter or of one body from the vicinity of those bodies that are in immediate contact with it, or which we regard as at rest, 9 to the vicinity of other bodies.... | |
 | Kuno Fischer - Philosophy, Modern - 1887 - 656 pages
...know," says Descartes, " what motion really is, in order to determine it precisely, we must explain it as the translation of place (transport) of one...considered at rest, into the vicinity of others." " By a body, or a part of matter, I understand the whole of the mass in motion, not taking into consideration... | |
 | Kuno Fischer - Philosophy, Modern - 1887 - 618 pages
...know," says Descartes, " what motion really is, in order to determine it precisely, we must explain it as the translation of place (transport) of one...considered at rest, into the vicinity of others." " By a body, or a part of matter, I understand the whole of the mass in motion, not taking into consideration... | |
 | Richard Falckenberg - Philosophy, Modern - 1893 - 684 pages
...has been shown to be extension; corporeal becoming is motion. Motion is defined as " the transporting of one part of matter, or of one body, from the vicinity of those bodies that are in immediate contact with it, or which we regard as at rest, to the vicinity of other bodies."... | |
 | Richard Falckenberg - Philosophy, Modern - 1897 - 686 pages
...been shown to be extension ; corporeal becoming is motion. Motion is defined as " the transporting of one part of matter, or of one body, from the vicinity of those bodies that are in immediate contact with it, or which we regard as at rest, to the vicinity of other bodies."... | |
 | Paul Janet, Gabriel Séailles - Philosophy - 1902 - 402 pages
...limit can be assigned to it in space (Ibid. II. 21). Space being full, motion is " the transporting of one part of matter or of one body from the vicinity of those bodies that are in immediate contact with it, or which we regard as at II. L rest, to the vicinity of other... | |
 | Paul Janet, Gabriel Séailles-Ranson - Philosophy - 1902 - 412 pages
...limit can be assigned to it in space (Ibid. II. 21). Space being full, motion is " the transporting of one part of matter or of one body from the vicinity of those bodies that are in immediate contact with it, or which we regard as at II. L rest, to the vicinity of other... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1910 - 580 pages
...found a way to reconcile his theory with the accepted belief. He defined motion as "the transporting of one part of matter or of one body from the vicinity of those Wies that are in immediate contact with it, or which we regard as at rest, to the vicinity of other... | |
 | Ralph Barton Perry - Philosophy, Modern - 1912 - 416 pages
...found a way to reconcile his theory with the accepted belief. He defined motion as "the transporting of one part of matter or of one body from the vicinity of those bodies that are in immediate contact with it, or which we regard as at rest, to the vicinity of other bodies."... | |
 | Ralph Barton Perry - Philosophy, Modern - 1912 - 408 pages
...found a way to reconcile his theory with the accepted belief. He defined motion as "the transporting of one part of matter or of one body from the vicinity of those bodies that are in immediate contact with it, or which we regard as at rest, to the vicinity of other bodies."... | |
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