 | B. F. Cocker - 1870 - 546 pages
...approbation the words of Newton, "That gravity should be innate, inherent, and essential to matter, is so great an absurdity, that I believe no man who has in philosophic matters a competent faculty of thinking can ever fall into it" (p. 368). "The 'force of... | |
 | Andrew Bisset - 1871 - 514 pages
.... . . That gravity should be innate, inherent, and essential to matter, so that one body may act on another at a distance through a vacuum, without the...so great an absurdity, that I believe no man, who in philosophical matters has a competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it.' Another great... | |
 | Royal Society of Edinburgh - 1872 - 914 pages
...innate gravity to me. That gravity should be innate, " inherent, and essential to matter, so that one body may act upon " another at a distance through...competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it. * On the other hand, by the middle of last century the mathematical naturalists of the Continent, after... | |
 | Hans Christian Von Baeyer - 2001 - 196 pages
...object can pull another across empty space without the benefit of an intermediary is, in Newton's words, "so great an Absurdity, that I believe no man who...competent Faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it." When the balloonist grows similarly disenchanted with that explanation, he surmises that the cloth... | |
 | Brian Hanley - 2001 - 308 pages
...gradually upon darkness. "That gravity should be innate inherent & essential to matter so that one body may act upon another at a distance through a...of anything else by and through which their action or force may be conveyed from one to another," Newton states, "is to me so great an absurdity that... | |
 | M. Esfeld - 2001 - 392 pages
...argument applies to the principle of local action. Recall that even Newton regards action at a distance as "so great an absurdity that I believe no man who has in philosophical matters any competent faculty of thinking can ever fall into it".36 Separability and local action are See.... | |
 | Muriel Lederman, Ingrid Bartsch - 2001 - 528 pages
...[particles] contain," should be innate, inherent and essential to Matter ... is to me so great an Absurditv, that I believe no Man who has in philosophical Matters a competent Facultv ot thinking, can ever fall into it. (inDeason I986:l83) For Newton, alt motion and all life... | |
 | Karl Raimund Popper - 2002 - 616 pages
...innate, inherent, and essential to matter, so that one body may act upon another at a distance ... is to me so great an absurdity that I believe no man...competent faculty of thinking can ever fall into it.' It is interesting to see that Newton condemned here, in anticipation, the bulk of his followers. To... | |
 | Yurij Baryshev, Pekka Teerikorpi - 2002 - 412 pages
...that one bady may act upon another at a Distance thro'aa Vacuum without the Mediation of any thing else, by and through which their Action and Force...to another. is to me so great an Absurdity, that I beliere no Man who has m philosophical Matters a competent Faculty of thinking, can ever fall into... | |
 | Noam Chomsky - 2003 - 500 pages
...violation of the basic princi78 Chomsky on Democracy and Education pies of the mechanical philosophy, as "so great an Absurdity that I believe no Man who has...competent Faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it." Nonetheless, he was forced to conclude that the absurdity "does really exist." "Newton had no physical... | |
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That gravity should be innate, inherent, and essential to matter, so that one body may act upon another at a distance through a vacuum, without the mediation of anything else, by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to another,... 
