 | John Leslie - 1989 - 244 oldal
...'Newtonians' who think always of the following words of the General Scholium: 'I frame no hypotheses. ... It is enough that gravity does really exist and act according to the laws which we have explained.' Such people avert their gaze from the passages surrounding these famous sentences, from Newton's letters... | |
 | David C. Lindberg, Robert S. Westman - 1990 - 588 oldal
...Reidel, 1990). 175 The Motte-Cajori translation of the Principia is misleading here. Gravity is said to act "according to the laws which we have explained,...abundantly serves to account for all the motions" (p. 547). But expono and sufficio do not readily support this causal rendering as "explain" and "account... | |
 | Peter Achinstein - 1991 - 346 oldal
...and afterwards rendered general by induction. Thus it was that the impenetrability, the mobility, and impulsive force of bodies, and the laws of motion and of gravitation, were discovered. 2 Again in a letter to Cotes in 1713 Newton writes: ... as in geometry, the word "hypothesis" is not... | |
 | Richard S. Westfall - 1994 - 356 oldal
...to discover the cause of those properties of gravity from phenomena, and I feign no hypotheses . . . And to us it is enough that gravity does really exist,...according to the laws which we have explained, and abundandy serves to account for all the motions of the celestial bodies, and of our sea." Composed... | |
 | Harald Fritzsch - 1994 - 318 oldal
...propositions are inferred from the phenomena, and afterwards rendered general by induction. Thus it was that the impenetrability, the mobility, and the impulsive...explained, and abundantly serves to account for all the motion of the celestial bodies, and of our sea. The success of Newton's mechanics, as explained in... | |
 | Leonard B. Meyer - 1996 - 396 oldal
...Newton's Principia: "I have not been able to discover the cause of these properties of gravity ... it is enough that gravity does really exist, and act according to the laws we have explained." 34. To argue that species survived because they were fit (making fitness some sort... | |
 | John Earman, John D. Norton - 1998 - 604 oldal
...which appear later in Book 3, but is not quite so explicitly based on hypothetico-deductive success. And to us it is enough that gravity does really exist,...abundantly serves to account for all the motions of celestial bodies, and of our sea. (Cajori, 547) A passage Stein quotes from Newton's discussion of... | |
 | Brian L. Silver - 2000 - 553 oldal
...constant G. the causes of those properties . . . and I frame no hypothesis [nonfingo hypothesis]. . . . [I]t is enough that gravity does really exist, and...act according to the laws which we have explained." Don't judge Newton too quickly on this last issue. Science is very good at using shadowy concepts to... | |
 | Gregor Vogt-Spira, Bettina Rommel, Immanuel Musäus - 1999 - 440 oldal
...propositions are inferred from the phenomena, and afterwards rendered general by induction. Thus it was that the impenetrability, the mobility, and the impulsive...laws of motion and of gravitation, were discovered." Zur Induktion bei Bacon vgl. Jürgen Klein, Radikales Denken in England: Neuzeit. Studien zur Geistes-... | |
 | Frederick Copleston - 1999 - 452 oldal
...propositions are inferred from the phenomena, and afterwards rendered general by induction. Thus it was that the impenetrability, the mobility, and the impulsive...bodies, and the laws of motion and of gravitation, were discovered.'1 Of course, if we understand the word 'hypothesis' in the sense in which it is used in... | |
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... whether metaphysical or physical, whether of occult qualities or mechanical, have no place in experimental philosophy. In this philosophy, particular propositions are inferred from the phenomena, and afterwards rendered general by induction. Thus... 
