 | 1851 - 588 páginas
...prohibitions. There is no rebellion in matter, but there is in mind ! A good rule in physics is, " That no law should be admitted on hypothesis, but should rest solely on an induction of facts." Another equally good is, " That laws collected from an ample and accurate induction of facts, should... | |
 | Josef Brožek - 1984 - 348 páginas
...the heart of the "Baconian" method that underlined so much of Scottish influence in American science. No law should be admitted on hypothesis but should rest solely on an induction of facts .... Laws collected from an ample and accurate induction of facts should be deemed universal, till... | |
 | Mark A. Noll - 2004 - 364 páginas
...Facts, experience, the senses, and the inductive process generated the "rules . . . which have been followed in natural philosophy ever since the age of the great Newton, with so much advantage to the science."19 With many of the great thinkers of his age, Smith was mesmerized by Newton's accomplishments... | |
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... different climates, the same general laws of duty may be applied to them all, subject only to such modifications as shall be found to arise out of their respective states of society, or the diversity of their mutual relations. In the philosophy of... 