 | Frederick Copleston - 1999 - 452 pages
...the 1 Third edition, 1721, p. 380. * H, p. 314, translation by A. Motte. phenomena is to be called a hypothesis; and hypotheses, whether metaphysical or...mechanical, have no place in experimental philosophy. In this philosophy particular propositions are inferred from the phenomena, and afterwards rendered... | |
 | Eric Voegelin - 2000 - 267 pages
...well-established methods to observed phenomena. The "Scholium generale" had announced the hypotheses non ftngo: "whatever is not deduced from the phenomena is to...mechanical, have no place in experimental philosophy." The assumption of absolute space was a glaring contradiction to this declaration; certainly this fundamental... | |
 | Martin Schonfeld - 2000 - 376 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 be...mechanical, have no place in experimental philosophy. (M 2:547: cf. also K 2:764) It follows, and Newton explicated this in rules 3-4 of book III (M 2: 398/400,... | |
 | Roger Ariew, Eric Watkins - 2000 - 326 pages
...phenomena, and I frame no h}potheses. For whatever is not deduced from the phenomena is to be called a hypothesis, and hypotheses, whether metaphysical or...mechanical, have no place in experimental philosophy. In this philosophy, particular propositions are deduced from the phenomena and are rendered general... | |
 | Gottfried Wilhelm Freiherr von Leibniz, Samuel Clarke - 2000 - 132 pages
...phenomena, and I frame no hypotheses. For whatever is not deduced from the phenomena is to be called a hypothesis, and hypotheses, whether metaphysical or...mechanical, have no place in experimental philosophy. In this philosophy, particular propositions are deduced from the phenomena and are rendered general... | |
 | Justus Buchler - 2000 - 300 pages
...phenomena '. By ' hypothesis ' he accordingly meant a proposition not arrived at in this way: "... whatever is not deduced from the phenomena is to be called an hypothesis". The law of gravitation is "deduced from the phenomena", but a proposition, about the "cause of those... | |
 | Dennis Todd, Cynthia Wall, J. Paul Hunter - 2001 - 332 pages
...discover the cause of those properties of gravity from phenomena, and I frame [feign] no hypotheses; for whatever is not deduced from the phenomena is to be...mechanical, have no place in experimental philosophy. In this philosophy, particular proposition are inferred from the phenomena, and afterwards rendered... | |
 | Susan M. Felch, Paul J. Contino - 2001 - 276 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 be...mechanical, have no place in experimental philosophy. In this philosophy particular propositions are inferred from the phenomena, and afterwards rendered... | |
 | Giora Hon, Sam S. Rakover - 2001 - 372 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 be...mechanical, have no place in experimental philosophy [Newton (1687) 1995], pp.442-43. Did Newton really explain the phenomena of the heavens and the sea?... | |
 | Dagobert D. Runes - 2001 - 626 pages
...appended another statement from the closing pages of the same work: "I do not make hypotheses; for whatever is not deduced from the phenomena is to be...mechanical, have no place in experimental philosophy." — ACB Nicht-Ich: (Ger. non-ego) Anything which is not the subjective self. Fichte accounted for the... | |
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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. 
