 The qualities of bodies, which admit neither intensification nor remission of degrees and which are found to belong to all bodies within the reach of our experiments, are to be esteemed the universal qualities of all bodies whatsoever.  A treatise on astronomy - Page 140by Olinthus Gilbert Gregory - 1802Full view - About this book
 | Alexander Sissel Kohanski - Philosophy, Ancient - 1984 - 352 pages
...structure. Rule 3, in particular, reads: The qualities of bodies, which admit neither intensification nor remission of degrees, and which are found to belong to all bodies within reach of our experiments, are to be esteemed the universal qualities of all bodies whatsoever. Newton... | |
 | Robert E. Butts - Science - 1986 - 386 pages
...conservative nature. Newton's third rule reads: The qualities of bodies, which adult neither intensification nor remission of degrees, and which are found to belong...bodies within the reach of our experiments, are to be esteeied the universal qualities of all bodies whatsoever (Newton 1934, p. 398). While allowing the... | |
 | David Park - Science - 1990 - 488 pages
...Newton's method from that of scientists who invented a new hypothesis to account for every new effect. reach of our experiments are to be esteemed the universal qualities of all bodies whatsoever. \ can best illustrate the thrust of this rule by examples. Newton's laws of motion and of gravity apply... | |
 | Michael R. Matthews - Philosophy - 1989 - 180 pages
...the earth, and in the planets. Rule III The qualities of bodies, which admit neither intensification nor remission of degrees, and which are found to belong...the universal qualities of all bodies whatsoever. For since the qualities of bodies are only known to us by experiments, we are to hold for universal... | |
 | David Gooding, Trevor Pinch, Simon Schaffer - Science - 1989 - 504 pages
...Newton in his 'third rule of reasoning': The qualitites of bodies, which admit neither classification nor remission of degrees; and which are found to belong...the universal qualities of all bodies whatsoever. 23 21. De Pater (1979), pp. 57-121; Hackmann (1985), pp. 110-12. Fora further discussion. The same... | |
 | R. Taton, C. Wilson, Michael Hoskin - Science - 2003 - 310 pages
...generalization applying to the qualities of bodies: The qualities of bodies, which admit neither intention nor remission of degrees, and which are found to belong...the universal qualities of all bodies whatsoever. This rule, according to Newton, is "the foundation of all philosophy". Finally, in the third edition,... | |
 | Elliott Sober - Psychology - 1991 - 298 pages
...light in the earth and in the planets. 3. The qualities of bodies, which admit neither intensification nor remission of degrees, and which are found to belong...the universal qualities of all bodies whatsoever. For since the qualities of bodies are only known to us by experiments, we are to hold for universal... | |
 | Peter Achinstein - Philosophy - 1991 - 346 pages
...from the fact that certain qualities ("which admit neither intensification nor remission of degrees") are found to belong to all bodies within the reach of our experiments to the conclusion that these qualities 37. Newton, Opticks, pp. 404-405. 38. As noted in Essay 2, in... | |
 | Clark N. Glymour - Philosophy - 1997 - 406 pages
...possible, assign the same causes. Rule III The qualities of bodies, which admit neither intensification nor remission of degrees, and which are found to belong...bodies whatsoever. Rule IV In experimental philosophy we are to look upon propositions inferred by general induction from phenomena as accurately or very... | |
 | J. V. Field, Frank A. J. L. James - History - 1997 - 314 pages
...principles for inductive argument: Rule 3: The qualities of bodies, which admit neither intensification nor remission of degrees, and which are found to belong...universal qualities of all bodies whatsoever. Rule 4: In experimental philosophy we are to look upon propositions inferred by general induction from phenomena... | |
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