Dogmatism and Evolution: Studies in Modern PhilosophyMacmillan, 1910 - 259 pages |
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... scientific method , was useful only for purposes of instruction , and even so was better fitted to pro- duce a showy than a real and thorough knowledge ; and that for the discovery and establishment of truth induction and ex- periment ...
... scientific method , was useful only for purposes of instruction , and even so was better fitted to pro- duce a showy than a real and thorough knowledge ; and that for the discovery and establishment of truth induction and ex- periment ...
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... scientific discussion , and counted upon these as most potent aids to the discovery of truth , the great chancellor held that the estab- lishment of definitions belongs not to the beginnings of science but to its consummation , and that ...
... scientific discussion , and counted upon these as most potent aids to the discovery of truth , the great chancellor held that the estab- lishment of definitions belongs not to the beginnings of science but to its consummation , and that ...
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... scientific method , to a copy of Euclid's Elements . On the other hand , Leibniz , the greatest mathematician of the whole group , was not least a slave to mathematical notions , though in various directions he strained these notions to ...
... scientific method , to a copy of Euclid's Elements . On the other hand , Leibniz , the greatest mathematician of the whole group , was not least a slave to mathematical notions , though in various directions he strained these notions to ...
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... scientific doctrine must everywhere exactly correspond to a relation of cause and effect in the system of objective reality . From the methodological standpoint , this means that all explanation or proof of anything must be in terms of ...
... scientific doctrine must everywhere exactly correspond to a relation of cause and effect in the system of objective reality . From the methodological standpoint , this means that all explanation or proof of anything must be in terms of ...
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... scientific ideals , gained from the two sciences which were in most active progress at that time . Well - known parallels of greater or less suggestiveness are to be found in the influence of the science of mechanics upon Kant , of the ...
... scientific ideals , gained from the two sciences which were in most active progress at that time . Well - known parallels of greater or less suggestiveness are to be found in the influence of the science of mechanics upon Kant , of the ...
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