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... limit where prog- ress is at present arrested with the absolute limit of possible knowledge is opposed to the whole spirit of modern inquiry . Nor , if Science concludes that its own methods and instruments are unavailing to reach ...
... limit where prog- ress is at present arrested with the absolute limit of possible knowledge is opposed to the whole spirit of modern inquiry . Nor , if Science concludes that its own methods and instruments are unavailing to reach ...
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... limits , they have known little of . Physicists speak familiarly of scientific method , but " they could not , " says Prof. Jevons , 1 " readily describe what they mean by that expres- sion . Profoundly engaged in the study of particu ...
... limits , they have known little of . Physicists speak familiarly of scientific method , but " they could not , " says Prof. Jevons , 1 " readily describe what they mean by that expres- sion . Profoundly engaged in the study of particu ...
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... limits of the human mind -this is a question of metaphysics , not of science . The whole argument proceeds through a discussion , not of physical things , but of mental and spiritual— laws of thought , analyses of consciousness , contra ...
... limits of the human mind -this is a question of metaphysics , not of science . The whole argument proceeds through a discussion , not of physical things , but of mental and spiritual— laws of thought , analyses of consciousness , contra ...
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... limit of knowledge and the criterion of truth . Inductive Science would have to renounce its functions , and assume quite a different role , be- fore it could legitimately make any such declara- tions . As Dr. Carpenter said at Brighton ...
... limit of knowledge and the criterion of truth . Inductive Science would have to renounce its functions , and assume quite a different role , be- fore it could legitimately make any such declara- tions . As Dr. Carpenter said at Brighton ...
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... limit modern science to the contract- ed circle of the ancient Hebrew knowledge of the universe , and any variation of statement from the letter of Moses or Job , David or Paul , is regarded as a dangerous loosening of another screw in ...
... limit modern science to the contract- ed circle of the ancient Hebrew knowledge of the universe , and any variation of statement from the letter of Moses or Job , David or Paul , is regarded as a dangerous loosening of another screw in ...
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Page 138 - That gravity should be innate, inherent, and essential to matter, so that one body may act upon another at a distance through a vacuum, without the mediation of anything else...
Page 69 - If we take in our hand any volume; of divinity or school metaphysics, for instance; let us ask, Does it contain any abstract reasoning concerning quantity or number'} No. Does it contain any experimental reasoning concerning matter of fact and existence? No. Commit it then to the flames: for it can contain nothing but sophistry and illusion.
Page 199 - Whereas 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.
Page 196 - The scientific imagination, which is here authoritative, demands, as the origin and cause of a series of ether-waves, a particle of vibrating matter . quite as definite, though it may be excessively minute, as that which gives origin to a musical sound.
Page 102 - Every body continues in its state of rest, or of uniform motion in a straight line, except so far as it may be compelled by force to change that state.
Page 171 - There is no such science. There are no rules on these subjects so fixed and invariable as that their aggregate constitutes a science. I believe I have recently ran over twenty volumes, from Adam Smith to Professor Dew, of Virginia, and from the whole, if I were to pick out with one hand all the mere truisms, and with the other all the doubtful propositions, little would be left On Monday we propose to take up Kendall and Noah.