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" 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 140
by Olinthus Gilbert Gregory - 1802
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The Concept of Scientific Law in the Philosophy of Science and Epistemology ...

Igor Hanzel - Philosophy - 1999 - 250 pages
...is implied by his view that only those properties are essential "which admit neither intensification nor remission of degrees, and which are found to belong...to all bodies within the reach of our experiments" (1946, 398). 6 But, according to Hegel, even the second case still represents an inferior level of...
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A History of Philosophy, Volume 5

Frederick Copleston - Philosophy - 1999 - 452 pages
...the same causes. And the third states that those qualities of bodies which admit of neither intension nor remission of degrees, and which are found to belong to all bodies within the reach of experiment, are to be accounted the universal qualities of all bodies whatsoever. The question arises,...
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Fatigue in Cancer: A Multidimensional Approach

Maryl Lynne Winningham, Margaret Barton-Burke - Cancer - 2000 - 470 pages
...section "A Mathematical Model for Evaluating Fatigue in Cancer"). 3. The qualities of bodies . . . which are found to belong to all bodies within the...the universal qualities of all bodies whatsoever. The application of this third rule is not as easy as it appears. What are the "universal qualities...
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Science and the Riddle of Consciousness: A Solution

Jeffrey Foss - Computers - 2000 - 244 pages
...reason in deciding such a crucial matter: The qualities of bodies, which admit neither intensification nor remission of degrees, and which are found to belong...our experiments, are to be esteemed the universal properties of all bodies whatever. (1687, p. 398) The properties that this method arrives at are nevertheless...
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The Philosophy of the Young Kant: The Precritical Project

Martin Schonfeld - Philosophy - 2000 - 376 pages
...must, as far as possible, assign the same causes," and most important, "the qualities of bodies . . . which are found to belong to all bodies within the...the universal qualities of all bodies whatsoever" (rules 1-3. K 2:550-5/M 2:398-400)." As Newton put it, we are not "to recede from the analogy of Nature,...
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Natural Laws in Scientific Practice

Marc Lange - Science - 2000 - 365 pages
...Rule of Reasoning: the "analogy of Nature" permits the extrapolation from qualities of bodies that "are found to belong to all bodies within the reach of our experiments" to "all bodies whatsoever." I am certainly not endorsing this rule as Newton expressed it. I mention...
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Of Minds and Molecules: New Philosophical Perspectives on Chemistry

Nalini Bhushan, Stuart Rosenfeld - Science - 2000 - 324 pages
...the second criterion specified by the Rule: for a property to be "universal" quality, it has "to be found to belong to all bodies within the reach of our experiments.'" Interestingly, even on this second criterion, shape or figure no longer counts as universal according...
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Understanding the Heavens: Thirty Centuries of Astronomical Ideas from ...

Jean-Claude Pecker - Nature - 2001 - 616 pages
...possible assign the same causes;" rule 3: "The quality of bodies, which admits neither intensification, nor remission of degrees, and which are found to belong...the universal qualities of all bodies whatsoever;" and rule 4: "In experimental philosophy, we are to look upon propositions inferred by general induction...
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E.A. Burtt, Historian and Philosopher: A Study of the Author of The ...

D. Villemaire - History - 2002 - 318 pages
...thought he was describing. The third rule is: "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. " Burtt asks on what basis can it possibly be legitimate to generalize "ad infinitum" from immediate,...
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The Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Science

Edwin Arthur Burtt - Science - 2003 - 370 pages
...these to go beyond strict empirical principles. "The qualities of bodies, which admit neither intension nor remission of degrees, and which are found to belong...be esteemed the universal qualities of all bodies 218 whatsoever." Is not this a highly speculative assumption of the Cartesian sort, that it is legitimate...
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