History of the Inductive Sciences: From the Earliest to the Present Times, Band 1John W. Parker, West Strand, 1837 |
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... produce or suggest ; and by endeavouring to provide , for every kind of truth , methods of research as effective as those to which we owe the clearest and surest portions of our knowledge . Such a renovation and extension of the reform ...
... produce or suggest ; and by endeavouring to provide , for every kind of truth , methods of research as effective as those to which we owe the clearest and surest portions of our knowledge . Such a renovation and extension of the reform ...
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... producing real knowledge . Almost the whole of the career of the Greek schools of philosophy ; of the schoolmen of Europe in the middle ages ; of the Arabian and Indian philoso- phers ; shows us that we may have extreme ingenuity and ...
... producing real knowledge . Almost the whole of the career of the Greek schools of philosophy ; of the schoolmen of Europe in the middle ages ; of the Arabian and Indian philoso- phers ; shows us that we may have extreme ingenuity and ...
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... produced and ad- mired at a still earlier age . Indeed , such wide and ambitious doctrines as those which have been men- tioned , were better suited to the dim magnificence of poetry , than to the purpose of a philosophy which was to ...
... produced and ad- mired at a still earlier age . Indeed , such wide and ambitious doctrines as those which have been men- tioned , were better suited to the dim magnificence of poetry , than to the purpose of a philosophy which was to ...
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... , and that the Nile comes out of the ocean , and by that means produces its effects . " Now , " says the historian , " the man who talks about this 66 ocean - river , goes into the region of fable 28 THE GREEK SCHOOL PHILOSOPHY .
... , and that the Nile comes out of the ocean , and by that means produces its effects . " Now , " says the historian , " the man who talks about this 66 ocean - river , goes into the region of fable 28 THE GREEK SCHOOL PHILOSOPHY .
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... produced , might have been gradually concentrated and refined , so as to fall in , both with the requisi- tions of the reason and the testimony of sense . But this was not the direction which the Greek speculators took . On the contrary ...
... produced , might have been gradually concentrated and refined , so as to fall in , both with the requisi- tions of the reason and the testimony of sense . But this was not the direction which the Greek speculators took . On the contrary ...
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