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... experience ; that gravity , for in- stance , is a necessary and inherent quality of matter , like extension and figure , -a doctrine which Newton himself emphatically disavows ; and that the three primary laws of motion , in like manner ...
... experience ; that gravity , for in- stance , is a necessary and inherent quality of matter , like extension and figure , -a doctrine which Newton himself emphatically disavows ; and that the three primary laws of motion , in like manner ...
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... experience of it ? To ascertain this reasoning , it were requisite that we had experience of the origin of worlds ; and it is not sufficient , surely , that we have seen ships and cities arise from human art and contrivance . Can you ...
... experience of it ? To ascertain this reasoning , it were requisite that we had experience of the origin of worlds ; and it is not sufficient , surely , that we have seen ships and cities arise from human art and contrivance . Can you ...
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... experience , from the largest possible induction of facts , the conclusion being of the same general character with all the ordinary results of physical science ; that is , it is supported by evidence of the same kind , though vastly ...
... experience , from the largest possible induction of facts , the conclusion being of the same general character with all the ordinary results of physical science ; that is , it is supported by evidence of the same kind , though vastly ...
Contents
THE DISTINCTION BETWEEN PHYSICAL AND METAPHYSICAL | 1 |
THIS DISTINCTION APPLIED TO PHILOSOPHY AND THEOLOGY | 25 |
CHAPTER VIII | 173 |
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