| Morris Kline - 1985 - 270 sivua
...The main business of natural philosophy is to argue from phenomena without feigning hypotheses, and to deduce causes from effects, till we come to the very first cause, which certainly is not mechanical What is there in places almost empty of matter, and whence is it that the sun and planets... | |
| H. G. Koenigsberger - 1986 - 294 sivua
...The main business of natural philosophy is to argue from phenomena without feigning hypotheses, and to deduce causes from effects, till we come to the very first cause, which certainly is not mechanical, and not only to unfold the mechanism of the world, but chiefly to resolve these and such... | |
| H. G. Koenigsberger - 1986 - 300 sivua
...The main business of natural philosophy is to argue from phenomena without feigning hypotheses, and to deduce causes from effects, till we come to the very first cause, which certainly is not mechanical, and not only to unfold the mechanism of the world, but chiefly to resolve these and such... | |
| Andrew Cunningham, Roger French - 1990 - 346 sivua
...the main Business of natural Philosophy is to argue from Phenomena without feigning Hypotheses, and to deduce Causes from Effects, till we come to the very first Cause, which is certainly not mechanical." Berkeley was intent on exposing Newton's deceit. He began his critique... | |
| Richard S. Westfall - 1994 - 356 sivua
...the main Business of natural Philosophy is to argue from Phaenomena without feigning Hypotheses, and to deduce Causes from Effects, till we come to the very first Cause, which certainly is not mechanical; and not only to unfold the Mechanism of the World, but chiefly to resolve these and such... | |
| Charles W. Colson, Nancy Pearcey - 1999 - 600 sivua
...us by the light of nature." And why does science show us all this? Because the business of science is to "deduce causes from effects, till we come to the very first cause, which certainly is not mechanical." In other words, the world may operate by mechanical causes, but as we trace them back,... | |
| Max Jammer - 1999 - 290 sivua
...The main business of natural philosophy is to argue from phenomena without feigning hypotheses, and to deduce causes from effects, till we come to the very first cause, which certainly is not mechanical; and not only to unfold the mechanism of the world, but chiefly to resolve these and such... | |
| Frederick Copleston - 1999 - 452 sivua
...'the main business of natural philosophy is to argue from phenomena without feigning hypotheses, and to deduce causes from effects, till we come to the very first cause, which certainly is not mechanical'.3 And he goes on to argue that reflection on phenomena shows us that there is a spiritual,... | |
| Antonio T. De Nicolás - 2000 - 582 sivua
..."The main business of natural philosophy is to argue from phenomena without feigning hypotheses, and to deduce causes from effects till we come to the very first cause which certainly is not mechanical." THE SCIENCES NOW HAVE MASKS ON THEM Having extracted the features of their methods that... | |
| Michael R. Matthews - 2000 - 474 sivua
..."the main Business of natural Philosophy is to argue from Phaenomena without feigning Hypotheses, and to deduce Causes from Effects, till we come to the very first Cause, which certainly is not mechanical." This first nonmechanical cause is necessary to account for a variety of features of the... | |
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