 | John Aikin - 1808 - 730 pages
...deduced from phenomena, is to be called an hypothesis: and hypotheses, whether physical or metaphysical, whether of occult qualities or mechanical, have no place in experimental philosophy.' In this philosophy, propositions . are drawn from phenomena, and are rendered general by induction.... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1815 - 494 pages
...from phaenomena, is to be called an hypothesis : and hypotheses, whether physical or metaphysical, whether of occult qualities or mechanical, have no place in experimental philosophy." In this philosophy, propositions are drawn from phaenomena, and are rendered general by induction.... | |
 | Charles Hutton - 1815 - 686 pages
...to discover the cause of those properties of gravity from phenomena, and I frame no hypotheses. For whatever is not deduced from the phenomena, is to...mechanical, have no place in experimental philosophy. In this philosophy, particular propositions are inferred from the phenomena, and afterwards rendered... | |
 | 1815 - 488 pages
...from phaenomena, is to be called an hypothesis : and hypotheses, whether physical or metaphysical, whether of occult qualities or mechanical, have no place in experimental philosophy." In this philosophy, propositions are drawn from phaenomena, and are rendered general by induction.... | |
 | Johann Jakob Brucker - 1819 - 618 pages
...deduced from phenomena, is to be called an hypothesis : and hypotheses, whether physical or metaphysical, whether of occult qualities or mechanical, have no place in experimental philosophy." In this philosophy, propositions are drawn from plucitomom, and are rendered general by inThc Motions... | |
 | Frederick Beasley - 1822 - 584 pages
...extent by experiment and observation. " Whatever is not deduced from the phenomena," says Newton, " is to be called an hypothesis; and hypotheses, whether...mechanical, have no place in experimental philosophy." In this, therefore, lies the true secret of this new method of investigation, that our conclusions... | |
 | Library - 1827 - 712 pages
...deduced from phenomena, is to be called an hypothesis : and hypotheses, whether physical or metaphysical, whether of occult qualities or mechanical, have no place in experimental philosophy." In this philosophy, propositions are drawn from phenomena, and are rendered general by induction. This... | |
 | Thomas Exley - 1829 - 532 pages
...deduced from phenomena, is to be called an hypothesis : and hypotheses, whether physical or metaphysical, whether of occult qualities, or mechanical, have no place in experimental philosophy.''' The essential nature of what we call attraction and repulsion does not concern us : that certain powers... | |
 | Sir Richard Phillips - 1830 - 728 pages
...I could not deduce from phenomena, and I do not devise hypotheses. For whatever is not deduced from phenomena is to be called an hypothesis ; and hypotheses, whether metaphysical or physical, or of occult or mechanical qualities, have no place in experimental philosophy. It is sufficient that... | |
 | William Sharp - 1853 - 286 pages
...to discover the canst of the properties of gravity from phenomena, and I frame no hypotheses ; for whatever is not deduced from the phenomena is to be...mechanical, have no place in experimental philosophy To us it is enough that gravity does really exist, and act according to the laws which we have explained."... | |
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I frame no hypotheses: for whatever is not deduced from the phenomena is to be called an hypothesis ; and hypotheses, whether metaphysical or physical, whether of occult qualities or mechanical, have no place in experimental philosophy. 
