 | George Berkeley, Alexander Campbell Fraser - 1884 - 440 sivua
...final causes whereof are not of mechanical consideration. Certainly, if the explaining a phaenomenon be to assign its proper efficient and final cause, it should seem that Mechanical Philosophers never explained any thing ; their province being only to discover the... | |
 | Alexander Campbell Fraser - 1890 - 330 sivua
...efficient and final cause, it should seem that mechanical philosophers never can explain anything, their province being only to discover the laws of nature — that is, the general rules and methods of motion. We cannot make a single step in accounting for phenomena without admitting the immediate... | |
 | Alexander Campbell Fraser - 1890 - 326 sivua
...generation, and were overlooked until they came to bo recognised long after : — " If explaining of a phenomenon be to assign its proper efficient and final cause, it should seem that mechanical philosophers never can explain anything, their province being onlj' to discover the... | |
 | Alexander Campbell Fraser - 1895 - 352 sivua
...causes — are necessary to assist, not indeed the governor, but the governed. Yet if the explaining of a phenomenon be to assign its proper, efficient, and final cause, it should seem that natural science never explains anything, its province being only to discover the laws of nature."... | |
 | Alexander Campbell Fraser - 1897 - 318 sivua
...causes — are necessary to assist, not indeed the governor, but the governed. Yet if the explaining of a phenomenon be to assign its proper, efficient, and final cause, it should seem that natural science never explains anything, its province being only to discover the laws of nature."... | |
 | George Berkeley - 1898 - 580 sivua
...explaining a phaenomenon be to assign its proper efficient and final cause (sect. 154, 155, 1 60), it should seem the mechanical philosophers never explained...the laws of nature, that is, the general rules and methods of motion, and to account for particular phaenomena by reducing them under, or shewing their... | |
 | George Berkeley - 1898 - 606 sivua
...explaining a phaenomenon be to assign its proper efficient and final cause (sect. 154, 155, 1 60), it should seem the mechanical philosophers never explained...the laws of nature, that is, the general rules and methods of motion, and to account for particular phenomena by reducing them under, or shewing their... | |
 | George Berkeley - 1898 - 556 sivua
...productions of natural effects, the efficient and final causes whereof are not of mechanical consideration. Certainly, if the explaining a phenomenon be to assign its proper efficient and final cause (sect. 154, 155, 1 60), it should seem the mechanical philosophers never explained any thing ; their... | |
 | George Berkeley, Alexander Campbell Fraser - 1901 - 448 sivua
...the explaining a phaenomenon be to assign its proper efficient and final cause (sect. 154, 155, 160), it should seem the mechanical philosophers never explained...the laws of nature, that is, the general rules and methods of motion ; and to account for particular phenomena by reducing them under, or shewing their... | |
 | George Berkeley, Alexander Campbell Fraser - 1901 - 466 sivua
...the explaining a phenomenon be to assign its proper efficient and final cause (sect. 154, 155, 160), it should seem the mechanical philosophers never explained...the laws of nature, that is, the general rules and methods of motion ; and to account for particular phaenomena by reducing them under, or shewing their... | |
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The laws of attraction and repulsion are to be regarded as laws of motion, and these only as rules or methods observed in the productions of natural effects, the efficient and final causes whereof are not of mechanical consideration. Certainly, if the... 
