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... causes of natural things are to be admitted , than such as are both true , and sufficient to explain their ... cause is already known , all inquiry is superfluous . But if not known , how can it be the test of a sound induction ...
... causes of natural things are to be admitted , than such as are both true , and sufficient to explain their ... cause is already known , all inquiry is superfluous . But if not known , how can it be the test of a sound induction ...
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... cause already accepted for one class of phenomena , if it will also explain another class , is prefer- able to one which explains the latter alone . Thus gravity was a known fact with regard to bodies on the earth's sur- face ; and ...
... cause already accepted for one class of phenomena , if it will also explain another class , is prefer- able to one which explains the latter alone . Thus gravity was a known fact with regard to bodies on the earth's sur- face ; and ...
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... caused by its undulations , and this reaches us from stars immensely distant . Its elasticity , also , implies its diffusion in all directions , and not merely in the lines of the transmission of stellar light . Again , this ether must ...
... caused by its undulations , and this reaches us from stars immensely distant . Its elasticity , also , implies its diffusion in all directions , and not merely in the lines of the transmission of stellar light . Again , this ether must ...
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... cause , which is pointed out by many classes of phenomena converging together , is just as imperative a law of sound philosophy , as to reject and refuse every really superfluous element . 8. No second fluid , of caloric , electricity ...
... cause , which is pointed out by many classes of phenomena converging together , is just as imperative a law of sound philosophy , as to reject and refuse every really superfluous element . 8. No second fluid , of caloric , electricity ...
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... 101.24 , or six hundred thousand times less . Hence the condensation which it can cause , beyond that already produced on the nearest monads under the pressure of the free ether , must be very small . And since 32 ON MATTER AND ETHER .
... 101.24 , or six hundred thousand times less . Hence the condensation which it can cause , beyond that already produced on the nearest monads under the pressure of the free ether , must be very small . And since 32 ON MATTER AND ETHER .
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Page 3 - I frame no hypotheses: for whatever is not deduced from the phenomena is to be called an hypothesis ; and hypotheses, whether metaphysical or physical, whether of occult qualities or mechanical, have no place in experimental philosophy.
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