 | Plato - Cambridge Platonists - 1905 - 592 pages
...much concerning God, of Whom the Discourse from Phenomena belongs to Experimental Philosophy. . . . The main business of Natural Philosophy is to argue...feigning Hypotheses, and to deduce Causes from Effects, till we come to the very First Cause, which certainly is not mechanical. Besides the better Argument... | |
 | Plato - Cambridge Platonists - 1905 - 560 pages
...Philosophy is to argue from Phenomena without feigning Hypotheses, and to deduce Causes from Effects, till we come to the very First Cause, which certainly is not mechanical. Besides the better Argument from Design which the reformed astronomy seemed to offer, there was also... | |
 | George Hayward Joyce - Logic - 1908 - 448 pages
...philosophers," he says, " feign hypotheses . . . for 'explaining all things mechanically . . . whereas the ' main business of Natural Philosophy is to argue...feigning hypotheses, and to deduce ' causes from effects till we come to the very first cause, 'which certainly is not mechanical."2 It will be evident from... | |
 | Paul Carus - Electronic journals - 1915 - 672 pages
...hypotheses for explaining all things mechanically and referring other causes to metaphysics : whereas the main business of natural philosophy is to argue...feigning hypotheses and to deduce causes from effects till we come to the very first cause, which certainly is not mechanical; and not only to unfold the... | |
 | George Hayward Joyce - Logic - 1916 - 460 pages
...is to argue from ' phenomena without feigning hypotheses, and to deduce ' causes from effects till we come to the very first cause, ' which certainly is not mechanical." z It will be evident from these citations that the method employed by this greatest of scientific discoverers... | |
 | Edwin Arthur Burtt - History - 1925 - 382 pages
...omnipresence of God ; it is also the infinite scene of the d1vine knowledge and control. " Whereas the main business of natural philosophy is to argue...feigning hypotheses, and to deduce causes from effects, till we come to the very first cause, which certainly is not mechanical ; and not only to unfold the... | |
 | Adolph Judah Snow - Gravitation - 1926 - 270 pages
...Hypotheses for explaining all things mechanically, and referring other causes to Metaphysics. Whereas the main Business of Natural Philosophy is to argue...feigning Hypotheses and to deduce causes from effects, till we come to the very first cause, which certainly is not mechanical . . . and, though every step... | |
 | Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art - 1927 - 856 pages
...less systematic queries in the book on Optics, Newton tells us more about his speculative opinions : " The main business of natural Philosophy is to argue...feigning Hypotheses, and to deduce Causes from Effects, till we come to the very first Cause, which certainly is not mechanical. . . . Does it not appear from... | |
 | Mathematical Association - Mathematics - 1927 - 222 pages
...of chemistry at every point, especially his affirmation, that the main business of natural science is to argue from phenomena without feigning hypotheses and to deduce causes from effects. The balance of precision is the chemist's inseparable companion, as he constantly uses it in the estimation... | |
 | History of Science Society - Physicists - 1928 - 394 pages
...Philisophy is to argue from Phaenomena without feinging Hypotheses, and to deduce Causes from Effects, till we come to the very first Cause, which certainly is not mechanical " (p. 336.) ' 'Query 19. Are not the Rays of Light very small Bodies emitted from shining Substances?... | |
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Whereas the main Business of natural Philosophy is to argue from Phenomena without feigning Hypotheses, and to deduce Causes from Effects, till we come to the very first Cause, which certainly is not mechanical; and not only to unfold the Mechanism of... 
