 | Thomas Henry Huxley - 1863 - 186 pages
...competent to produce these phenomena. If we can succeed in satisfying these three conditions we shall have demonstrated our hypothesis ; or rather I ought to...rate modified by a further accession of knowledge. It was because it satisfied these conditions that we accepted the hypothesis as to the disappearance... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - 1863 - 170 pages
...competent to produce these phenomena. If we can succeed in satisfying these three conditions we shall have demonstrated our hypothesis ; or rather I ought to...rate modified by a further accession of knowledge. It was because it satisfied these conditions that we accepted the hypothesis as to the disappearance... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - 1872 - 168 pages
...competent to produce these phenomena. If we can succeed in satisfying these three conditions, we shall have demonstrated our hypothesis ; or rather I ought to...rate modified by a further accession of knowledge. It was because it satisfied these conditions that we accepted the hypothesis as to the disappearance... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - 1877 - 166 pages
...competent to produce these phenomena. If we can succeed in satisfying these three conditions, we shall have demonstrated our hypothesis ; or rather I ought to...rate modified by a further accession of knowledge. It was because it satisfied these conditions that we accepted the hypothesis as to the disappearance... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - 1886 - 350 pages
...as fur as certainty is possible for is ; l'or, afier all, there is no one of our surest invititi ins which may not be upset, or at any rate modified, by a further accession of knowledge. It was because it satisfied these conditions that we accepted the hypothesis as to the disappearance... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - 1889 - 168 pages
...competent to produce these phenomena. If we can succeed in satisfying these three conditions, we shall have demonstrated our hypothesis ; or rather I ought to...rate modified by a further accession of knowledge. It was because it satisfied these conditions that we accepted the hypothesis as to the disappearance... | |
 | Mordecai Cubitt Cooke - 1889 - 408 pages
...competent to produce these phenomena. If we can succeed in satisfying these three conditions we shall have demonstrated our hypothesis ; or rather, I ought to...rate, modified by a further accession of knowledge." l And again :— " Every hypothesis is bound to explain, or at any rate, not be inconsistent with,... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - 1894 - 504 pages
...competent to produce these phenomena. If we can succeed in satisfying these three conditions we shall have demonstrated our hypothesis; or rather I ought to...rate modified by a further accession of knowledge. It was because it satisfied these conditions that we accepted the hypothesis as to the disappearance... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - 1894 - 516 pages
...competent to produce these phenomena. If we can succeed in satisfying these three conditions we shall have demonstrated our hypothesis ; or rather I ought to...rate modified by a further accession of knowledge. It was because it satisfied these conditions that we accepted the hypothesis as to the disappearance... | |
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demonstrated our hypothesis; or rather I ought to say, we shall have proved it as far as certainty is possible for us ; for, after all, there is no one of our surest convictions which may not be upset, or at any rate modified by a further accession of... 