 | Morris Kline - Mathematics - 1964 - 513 pages
...may regard the present state of the universe as the effect of its past and the cause of its future. An intellect which at any given moment knew all the...nature and the mutual positions of the beings that compose it, if this intellect were vast enough to submit its data to analysis, could condense into... | |
 | Jacob Opper - Art and science - 1973 - 234 pages
...the mutual position of the beings who compose it, were this Intellect but vast enough to submit his data to analysis, could condense into a single formula the movement of the greatest body in the universe and that of the lightest atom ; to 16. Russell, History, pp. 36-37. 17. Whitehead,... | |
 | Morris Kline - Mathematics - 1982 - 380 pages
...may regard the present state of the universe as the effect of its past and the cause of its future. An intellect which at any given moment knew all the...nature and the mutual positions of the beings that compose it, if this intellect were vast enough to submit the data to analysis, could condense into... | |
 | Richard Morris - Science - 1986 - 248 pages
...may regard the present state of the universe as the effect of its past and the cause of its future. An intellect which at any given moment knew all the forces that animate matter and the mutual positions of the beings that compose it, if this intellect were vast enough to... | |
 | Minas C. Kafatos - Philosophy - 1991 - 312 pages
...respective positions of the beings that compose it. and further possessing the scope to analyze these data, could condense into a single formula the movement...the greatest bodies of the universe and that of the least atom: for such an intelligence nothing could be uncertain, and past and future alike would be... | |
 | Leo Howe, Alan Wain - Science - 1993 - 210 pages
...Laplace (1749-1827), a later exponent of the deterministic philosophy of mathematical modelling, put it: An intellect which at any given moment knew all the...intellect were vast enough to submit its data to analysis, it could condense into a single formula the movement of the greatest bodies of the universe and that... | |
 | Ted Grant, Alan Grant - Philosophy - 2007 - 270 pages
...several religions, notably Calvinism. In his Philosophical Essays on Probabilities, Laplace wrote: An intellect which at any given moment knew all the...that animate Nature and the mutual positions of the being that comprise it, if this intellect were vast enough to submit its data to analysis, could condense... | |
 | Stephen Kern - History - 2009 - 448 pages
...respective positions of the beings that compose it, and further possessing the scope to analyze these data, could condense into a single formula the movement...the greatest bodies of the universe and that of the least atom: for such an intelligence nothing would be uncertain, and the past and future alike would... | |
 | Antonello Pasini - Science - 2005 - 232 pages
...defending the most absolute determinism, meaning by this that "if an intellect, at a certain instant, knew all the forces that animate nature and the mutual positions of the beings that compose it, and if it were so vast as to submit these data to an analysis, it would condense into a... | |
 | Rudolf Dvorak, F. Freistetter, Jürgen Kurths - Science - 2006 - 304 pages
...effect of its past and the cause of its future. An intellect which at any given moment knew all of the forces that animate nature and the mutual positions of the beings that compose it, if this intellect were vast enough to submit the data to analysis, could condense into... | |
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