History of the Inductive Sciences: From the Earliest to the Present Times, Band 1John W. Parker, West Strand, 1837 |
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... Philosophy of Science may hope to excite some interest . All persons of cultivated minds will agree , that a very important advan- tage would be gained , if any light could be thrown upon the modes of discovering truth , the powers that ...
... Philosophy of Science may hope to excite some interest . All persons of cultivated minds will agree , that a very important advan- tage would be gained , if any light could be thrown upon the modes of discovering truth , the powers that ...
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... philosophy appears to belong pecu- liarly to our own time . We may discern no few or doubtful presages of its approach ; and an attempt to give form and connexion to the elements of such a scheme cannot now be considered premature . The ...
... philosophy appears to belong pecu- liarly to our own time . We may discern no few or doubtful presages of its approach ; and an attempt to give form and connexion to the elements of such a scheme cannot now be considered premature . The ...
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... philosophy , directed by the light which the History of Science sheds . Such a reform , when its Epoch shall arrive ... philosophers of all ages , and in all sciences , But the assumption of this judicial position is so inevitably ...
... philosophy , directed by the light which the History of Science sheds . Such a reform , when its Epoch shall arrive ... philosophers of all ages , and in all sciences , But the assumption of this judicial position is so inevitably ...
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... Philosophy of Inductive Science in its general bearings , it will be requisite , in order to exhibit , in its due light the state of the philosophy of morals , or art , or any similar subject , to give a view of the steps by which it ...
... Philosophy of Inductive Science in its general bearings , it will be requisite , in order to exhibit , in its due light the state of the philosophy of morals , or art , or any similar subject , to give a view of the steps by which it ...
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... PHILOSOPHY , WITH REFERENCE TO PHYSICAL SCIENCE . CHAPTER I. - PRELUDE TO THE GREEK SCHOOL PHILOSOPHY . Sect . 1. First Attempts of the Speculative Faculty in Phy- sical Inquiries 23 Sect . 2. Primitive Mistake in Greek Physical ...
... PHILOSOPHY , WITH REFERENCE TO PHYSICAL SCIENCE . CHAPTER I. - PRELUDE TO THE GREEK SCHOOL PHILOSOPHY . Sect . 1. First Attempts of the Speculative Faculty in Phy- sical Inquiries 23 Sect . 2. Primitive Mistake in Greek Physical ...
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