...Years have been rejected. To tell us that every Species of Things is cndow'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...

...feel of consciousness. These two challenging ideas are considered in Chapter 7. What Is Consciousness? To tell us that every species of thing is endowed...quality by which it acts and produces manifest effects tells us nothing. SIR ISAAC NEWTON Most of us hold as self-evident that inside each of us lies a kind...

...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...it acts and produces manifest effects is to tell us nothing.1 ' Matter's essence was streamlined and simplified. It was characterized by the "two catholic...

...condition that it did not imply the existence of a distinct 'real existent being'. 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...

...forces as mysterious qualities in the old-fashioned sense. "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." Newton sounds completely modern and rational, reacting against critics who accused him of occult mumbo-jumbo...

...according to Newton, still obscure or 'occult'. 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 Principles of Motion from Phaenomena, and afterwards to tell us how the...

...condition that it did not imply the existence of a distinct 'real existent being'. with an occult spedfick 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...

...bodies and of our sea. And in Query 31 of Optics, he noted: 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 the phenomena, and afterward to tell us...

...Years have been rejected. To 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.51 I have thus far indicated numerous departures of early modern natural philosophy and science...

...his Optics, "that every Species of Things is endow'd with an occult specific quality [like gravity] by which it acts and produces manifest effects, is to tell us nothing."7 If Hegel's statements about astronomy are not always felicitous, in the present case at...