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... suggested by the appearances seen in the heavens : namely , the spheres which revolve and carry the luminaries in their revolutions . Now it was no doubt the determined search for such " realities " as these which gave birth to the ...
... suggested by the appearances seen in the heavens : namely , the spheres which revolve and carry the luminaries in their revolutions . Now it was no doubt the determined search for such " realities " as these which gave birth to the ...
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... suggested by visible things , he uses expressions quite conformable to the true philosophy of science ; and the like is true of all other sciences . CHAPTER IV . ARISTOTLE . THE HE views of Aristotle ADDITIONAL REMARKS ON PLATO . 17 ...
... suggested by visible things , he uses expressions quite conformable to the true philosophy of science ; and the like is true of all other sciences . CHAPTER IV . ARISTOTLE . THE HE views of Aristotle ADDITIONAL REMARKS ON PLATO . 17 ...
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... suggested that it is not a characteristic designation of these Sciences to call them Inductive Sciences . Almost every discovery involves in it the introduction of a new conception , as the ele- ment of a new proposition ; and the ...
... suggested that it is not a characteristic designation of these Sciences to call them Inductive Sciences . Almost every discovery involves in it the introduction of a new conception , as the ele- ment of a new proposition ; and the ...
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... suggests to a calm and clear - sighted man . They can hardly be said to have opened the way to a Science of Medicine ; for in the sense in which we here use the word Science , namely , a collec- tion of general truths inferred from ...
... suggests to a calm and clear - sighted man . They can hardly be said to have opened the way to a Science of Medicine ; for in the sense in which we here use the word Science , namely , a collec- tion of general truths inferred from ...
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... powerfully contri- buted to suggest this vision , was the vast intellectual progress which they were themselves conscious of having made , through the introduction of the Greek philosophy ; and to this may be added , perhaps THE ROMANS.
... powerfully contri- buted to suggest this vision , was the vast intellectual progress which they were themselves conscious of having made , through the introduction of the Greek philosophy ; and to this may be added , perhaps THE ROMANS.
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