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... physical science , as it was studied by the schoolmen during the Middle Ages , is quite as unsatisfactory as the record of its treatment by the ancients . Logic , which I have ventured to class with the meta- physical sciences , because ...
... physical science , as it was studied by the schoolmen during the Middle Ages , is quite as unsatisfactory as the record of its treatment by the ancients . Logic , which I have ventured to class with the meta- physical sciences , because ...
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... physical science , that is , to matters of fact , is proved by the almost total failure of all attempts in this department for more than twenty centuries . - Rapid progress of physical science after the Baconian reform . -It is not ...
... physical science , that is , to matters of fact , is proved by the almost total failure of all attempts in this department for more than twenty centuries . - Rapid progress of physical science after the Baconian reform . -It is not ...
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... physical science , and per- haps ignorant alike of its principles and its practice , still kept up their fondness for ancient and abstract learning . A later instance of the erroneous application of the method of physical inquiry to ...
... physical science , and per- haps ignorant alike of its principles and its practice , still kept up their fondness for ancient and abstract learning . A later instance of the erroneous application of the method of physical inquiry to ...
Contents
THE DISTINCTION BETWEEN PHYSICAL AND METAPHYSICAL | 1 |
THIS DISTINCTION APPLIED TO PHILOSOPHY AND THEOLOGY | 25 |
CHAPTER VIII | 173 |
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