On the Philosophy of Discovery: Chapters Historical and CriticalJ.W. Parker and son, 1860 - 531 páginas |
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... conceive that in the doc- trines to which these researches have conducted us , we have a far better hope that we possess a body of permanent truths than the earlier essays on the same subjects could furnish . For we have not taken our ...
... conceive that in the doc- trines to which these researches have conducted us , we have a far better hope that we possess a body of permanent truths than the earlier essays on the same subjects could furnish . For we have not taken our ...
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... conceive , they sent down by some Prometheus , as by Prometheus they gave us the light of fire ; and the ancients , more clear - sighted than we , and less removed from the gods , handed down this traditionary doctrine : that whatever ...
... conceive , they sent down by some Prometheus , as by Prometheus they gave us the light of fire ; and the ancients , more clear - sighted than we , and less removed from the gods , handed down this traditionary doctrine : that whatever ...
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... conceive , to this step in science . In the same manner he requires a science of Harmonics which shall be free from the defects and inaccuracies which occur in actual instruments . This belief that the universe was full of mathematical ...
... conceive , to this step in science . In the same manner he requires a science of Harmonics which shall be free from the defects and inaccuracies which occur in actual instruments . This belief that the universe was full of mathematical ...
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... conceive , to include such know- ledge as Plato had then arrived at on the various parts of the universe . The subjects there referred to are , as I have elsewhere stated ' , these : light and heat , water , ice , gold , gems , rust and ...
... conceive , to include such know- ledge as Plato had then arrived at on the various parts of the universe . The subjects there referred to are , as I have elsewhere stated ' , these : light and heat , water , ice , gold , gems , rust and ...
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... conceive , the instinct which impels man to seek truth by experiment can never be altogether ex- tinguished . Seneca's experiment was deprived of its value by the indistinctness of his ideas , which led him to rest in the crude ...
... conceive , the instinct which impels man to seek truth by experiment can never be altogether ex- tinguished . Seneca's experiment was deprived of its value by the indistinctness of his ideas , which led him to rest in the crude ...
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