 not one of the inductive truths which men have established, or think they have established, is really safe from exception or reversal. . . . Euler expresses no more than the truth when he says that it would be impossible to fix on any one thing really...  The Principles of science - 272. oldalszerző: William Stanley Jevons - 1874 - 480 oldalTeljes nézet - Információ erről a könyvről
 | Charles Lowe, Henry Wilder Foote, John Hopkins Morison, Henry H. Barber, James De Normandie - 1874 - 540 oldal
...everything is good. The fact is, as Stanley Jevons says (Principles of Science, Vol. I. p. 274), " not one of the inductive truths which men have established,...established, is really safe from exception or reversal. . . . Euler expresses no more than the truth when he says that it would be impossible to fix on any... | |
 | James Thompson Bixby - 1876 - 254 oldal
...thoroughly, we find more and more that every thing is good. The fact is, as Stanley Jevons says,3 " not one of the inductive truths which men have established,...established, is really safe from exception or reversal. . . . Euler expresses no more than the truth when he says that it would be impossible to fix on any... | |
 | Jesse Burgess Thomas - 1877 - 240 oldal
...universe has been exhaustively probed, no inductive proposition can be rested in as absolutely true. " Not one of the inductive truths which men have established,...established, is really safe from exception or reversal " — such is the conclusion of Stanley Jevons. Many of them have been reversed, as he points out in... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin Finkel - 1888 - 518 oldal
...can never rise to the rank of an absolutely certain law until all possible cases have been examined. Not one of the inductive -truths which men have established,...the existence of oxygen in all acids that he adopted the general conclusion that all acids contain oxygen, yet subsequent experience has shown this to be... | |
 | James Thompson Bixby - 1889 - 252 oldal
...thoroughly, we find more and more that every thing is good. The fact is, as Stanley Jevons says,3 " not one of the inductive truths which men have established,...established, is really safe from exception or reversal. . . . Euler expresses no more than the truth when he says that it would be impossible to fix on any... | |
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