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... truth probably attained , I have devoted a special chapter to the Theory of Approximation , and however imperfectly I may have treated this subject , I must look upon it as a very essential part of a work on Scientific Method . It then ...
... truth probably attained , I have devoted a special chapter to the Theory of Approximation , and however imperfectly I may have treated this subject , I must look upon it as a very essential part of a work on Scientific Method . It then ...
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... , so that inaccuracies of detail will not in the majority of cases affect the truth of the general principles illustrated . December 15 , 1873 . PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION . FEW alterations of importance xü PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION.
... , so that inaccuracies of detail will not in the majority of cases affect the truth of the general principles illustrated . December 15 , 1873 . PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION . FEW alterations of importance xü PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION.
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... truth of the proposition . It is only after having thus tested the same- ness of things that we can turn round and say that A and B , being the same , may be substituted one for the other . It would seem as if we were here in a vicious ...
... truth of the proposition . It is only after having thus tested the same- ness of things that we can turn round and say that A and B , being the same , may be substituted one for the other . It would seem as if we were here in a vicious ...
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... truth of the results of that calculus . All the more exact and successful parts of physical science depend upon its use , and yet the mathematicians who have created so great a body of exact truths have never decided upon the basis of ...
... truth of the results of that calculus . All the more exact and successful parts of physical science depend upon its use , and yet the mathematicians who have created so great a body of exact truths have never decided upon the basis of ...
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... truths cannot be proved , otherwise there would be an endless chain of demonstration ; and it is in self - evident ... truth , and each law doubtless pre- supposes and implies the other two . But it has not hitherto been found possible ...
... truths cannot be proved , otherwise there would be an endless chain of demonstration ; and it is in self - evident ... truth , and each law doubtless pre- supposes and implies the other two . But it has not hitherto been found possible ...
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