 But to derive two or three general principles of motion from phenomena, and afterwards to tell us how the properties and actions of all corporeal things follow from those manifest principles, would be a very great step in philosophy, though the causes...  Beyond Freedom and Dignityby Burrhus Frederic Skinner - 2002 - 240 pagesNo preview available - About this book
 | William Whewell - Science - 1840 - 606 pages
...Philosophy, and therefore of late years have beeii rejected. To tell us that every species of things 'is endowed with an occult specific quality by which...and produces manifest effects, is to tell us nothing : but to derive two or three general principles of motion from phenomena, and afterwards to tell us... | |
 | 1841 - 530 pages
...specific forms of things, but as general laws of nature .... To tell us that every species of things is endowed with an occult specific quality, by which...and produces manifest effects, is to tell us nothing : but to derive two or three general principles of motion from phenomena, and afterwards to tell us... | |
 | Alexander von Humboldt - Astronomy - 1850 - 660 pages
...Phil. nat. p. 676. — Го tell us that every species of things is endow'd with an occult specifick quality by which it acts and produces manifest effects, is to tell us nothing: but to derive two or three general principles of motion from phaenomena, and afterwards to tell us... | |
 | Alexander von Humboldt - Astronomy - 1851 - 306 pages
...Principia Phil. Nat. p. 676). " To tell us that every species of things is endowed with an occult specifick quality, by which it acts and produces manifest effects, is to tell us nothing; but to derire two or three general principles of motion from phsenomena, and afterwards to tell us... | |
 | William Whewell - Philosophy - 1860 - 604 pages
...Philosophy, and therefore of late years have been rejected. To tell us that every species of things is endowed with an occult specific quality by which...and produces manifest effects, is to tell us nothing : but to derive two or three general principles of motion from phenomena, and afterwards to tell us... | |
 | Alexander von Humboldt - Philosophy - 1870 - 446 pages
...Phil. Nat p. 676. — „To tell ив that every species of things is endow'd with an occult specinck quality by Which it acts and produces manifest effects, is to tell us nothing: but to derive two or three general principles of motion from phaenoinen'a, and afterward8t to tell... | |
 | George Henry Lewes - Knowledge, Theory of - 1874 - 456 pages
...philosophy, and therefore of late years have been rejected. To tell us that every species of things is endowed with an occult specific quality by which...produces manifest effects, is to tell us nothing. But to derive two or three general Principles of Motion from phenomena, and afterwards to tell us how... | |
 | George Henry Lewes - Knowledge, Theory of - 1874 - 512 pages
...philosophy, and therefore of late years have been rejected. To tell us that every species of things is endowed with an occult specific quality by which...produces manifest effects, is to tell us nothing. But to derive two or three general Principles of Motion from phenomena, and afterwards to tell us how... | |
 | Anatomy - 1874 - 478 pages
...or to Petreity, or to the "virtus dormitiva" of opium in the comedy? "To tell us," as Newton said, "that every species of thing is endowed with an occult specific quality, is to tell us nothing." Even to say that the phenomenon is vital, is, as Whewell remarks, "very prejudicial... | |
 | Emanuel Swedenborg, T. M. Gorman - Mind and body - 1875 - 580 pages
...and therefore of late years have been rejected. To tell us that every species of Things is endow'd with an occult specific Quality by which it acts and produces manifest Effects, is to tell us nothing : But to derive two or three general Principles of Motion from Phsenomena, and afterwards to tell us... | |
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