 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
 | Paul Hyland, Olga Gomez, Francesca Greensides - Enlightenment - 2003 - 496 pages
...bodies, which admit neither intension nor remission oj degrees [ie that cannot be increased or reduced], and which are found to belong to all bodies within...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... | |
 | Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite - Religion - 220 pages
...intrusive divine agency. He wrote that the "qualities of bodies which admit neither intensification nor remission of degrees and which are found to belong...within the reach of our experiments are to be esteemed with universal qualities of all bodies whatsoever."'9 If I find that a particular piece of granite... | |
 | Frederick Copleston - Philosophy - 2003 - 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,... | |
 | Denis Patrick O'Brien - Business & Economics - 2004 - 458 pages
...possible, assign the same natural causes; 3. the qualities of bodies which admit neither intension nor remission of degrees, and which are found to belong...the universal qualities of all bodies whatsoever; 4. in experimental philosophy we are to look upon propositions collected by general induction from... | |
 | 2004 - 268 pages
...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 within the reach of our experiments, are to hè esteemed the universal qualities of all bodies whatsoever ... Lastly, if it universally appears,... | |
 | Glyn Lloyd-Hughes - 2005 - 412 pages
...in the earth, and in the planets. RULE III. The qualities of bodies, which admit neither intension nor remission of degrees, and which are found to belong...the universal qualities of all bodies whatsoever. We are certainly not to relinquish the evidence of experiments for the sake of dreams and vain fictions... | |
 | Maurice A. Finocchiaro - Philosophy - 2005 - 488 pages
...try to solve these problems. 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... | |
 | Jong-Ping Hsu, Dana Fine - Science - 2005 - 664 pages
...in the earth, and in the planets. RULE III. The qualities of bodies, which admit neither intension 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... | |
 | Jose Wudka - Science - 2006 - 307 pages
...far as possible, assign the same causes. RULE 3: The qualities of bodies that admit neither intention 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 collected by general induction from... | |
 | Harvie Ferguson - Social Science - 2006 - 246 pages
...was consistent with Newton's: The qualities of bodies of bodies, which admit neither intensification nor remission of degrees, and which are found to belong...the universal qualities of all bodies whatsoever' (1962, vol. II, 398). An appeal to experience of sensing, rather than a rigorous analysis of the conceptual... | |
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