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... known with reasonable certain- ty , and affiliated with previous knowledge into a con- sistent whole . In its narrower and more special sense , science , in modern times , has come to be re- stricted to that portion of systematized and ...
... known with reasonable certain- ty , and affiliated with previous knowledge into a con- sistent whole . In its narrower and more special sense , science , in modern times , has come to be re- stricted to that portion of systematized and ...
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... known little of . Physicists speak familiarly of scientific method , but " they could not , " says Prof. Jevons , ' " readily describe what they mean by that expres- sion . Profoundly engaged in the study of particu- .lar classes of ...
... known little of . Physicists speak familiarly of scientific method , but " they could not , " says Prof. Jevons , ' " readily describe what they mean by that expres- sion . Profoundly engaged in the study of particu- .lar classes of ...
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... known as the Vatican Council , it was defined to be " a doc- trine divinely revealed , that when the Roman Pontiff speaks ex cathedra . he possesses that in- fallibility with which the Divine Rdeeemer willed his Church to be endowed ...
... known as the Vatican Council , it was defined to be " a doc- trine divinely revealed , that when the Roman Pontiff speaks ex cathedra . he possesses that in- fallibility with which the Divine Rdeeemer willed his Church to be endowed ...
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... known to all scholars . For an accurate test , there is no single manuscript that we can resort to . We must rely upon the criti- cal judgment of certain fallible men to select , out of many codexes , the particular word which in each ...
... known to all scholars . For an accurate test , there is no single manuscript that we can resort to . We must rely upon the criti- cal judgment of certain fallible men to select , out of many codexes , the particular word which in each ...
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... known ? By sense - ob- servation ? No skill and care would ever enable us to learn or prove experimentally any one geometrical proposition in the absolute way in which we know them all . Any finite amount of difference vastly less than ...
... known ? By sense - ob- servation ? No skill and care would ever enable us to learn or prove experimentally any one geometrical proposition in the absolute way in which we know them all . Any finite amount of difference vastly less than ...
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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 102 - Every body continues in its state of rest or of uniform motion in a straight line, except in so far as it may be compelled by impressed forces to change that state.
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 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.