| Hasan S. Padamsee - 2002 - 708 pages
...power of gravity, but have not yet assigned the cause of the power. . . I frame no hypothesis; for whatever is not deduced from the phenomena is to be called an hypothesis; and hypothesis whether metaphysical or physical, whether of occult qualities or mechanical, have no place... | |
| I. Niiniluoto, Matti Sintonen, Jan Wolenski - 2004 - 1074 pages
...important because Newton claims that there indeed is a procedure which amounts to a method of discovery: 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... | |
| Kenneth Eriksson, Donald Estep, Claes Johnson - 2003 - 480 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" same as if the total mass of each ball was concentrated at the center of mass of each ball. This result... | |
| Kenneth Eriksson, Donald Estep, Claes Johnson - 2003 - 480 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" same as if the total mass of each ball was concentrated at the center of mass of each ball. This result... | |
| Jed Z. Buchwald, I. Bernard Cohen - 2001 - 380 pages
...development of his science. The distinction is evident in the Principia not only in the famous remark, "hypotheses, whether metaphysical or physical, whether...mechanical, have no place in experimental philosophy," in the General Scholium added in the second edition, but also in the care with which Newton called... | |
| Michael H.G. Hoffmann - 2005 - 408 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...qualities or mechanical, have no place in experimental philosophy.1 241 MHG Hoffmann, J. Lenhard, F Seeger (Eds.), Activity and Sign - Grounding Mathematics... | |
| Christopher Beedham - 2005 - 248 pages
...from Newton himself (1687): 'I frame no hypotheses. For whatever is not deduc'd from the phaenomena, is to be called an hypothesis; and hypotheses, whether...mechanical, have no place in experimental philosophy.' The second is from Laplace, referring to his famous 'nebular hypothesis' (1796): '1 will suggest an hypothesis... | |
| Michela Massimi - 2005 - 244 pages
...to discover the cause of these properties of gravity from phenomena, and I feign no hypotheses; for whatever is not deduced from the phenomena is to be...hypothesis; and hypotheses, whether metaphysical or physical ... have no place in experimental philosophy. 38 In the Rules of Reasoning in Philosophy, Newton further... | |
| Dov M. Gabbay, John Woods - 2008 - 750 pages
...properties of gravity from phenomena, and I feign no hypotheses; for whatever is not deduced [sic] from phenomena is to be called an hypothesis; and hypotheses, whether metaphysical or physical, whether of 'Tom van Handern denies this claim in van Flandernl 1999]. He argues that there are pulsars whose observations... | |
| Diane Ravitch, Michael Ravitch - 2006 - 512 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... | |
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