 By scientific thought we mean the application of past experience to new circumstances by means of an observed order of events. By saying that this order of events is exact, we mean that it is exact enough to correct experiments by, but we do not mean...  Macmillan's Magazine - Página 4971872Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - 1879 - 956 páginas
...infallibility attaching to his work and to reopen the question for solution by scientific thought — " the application of past experience to new circumstances, by means of an observed order of events," as Clifford put it. In the first gace, what are the "well-ascertained and solid facts" of eer ? I have... | |
 | 1880 - 820 páginas
...know by the exerciae of scientific thought" (p. 15G). Scientific thought was 'previously defined as "the application of past experience to new circumstances by means of an observed order of events." We have presented these abortive efforts of our author to sound the depths of metaphysics, partly to... | |
 | John Franklin Crowell - 1898 - 384 páginas
...in social interpretation by the aid of this method. " By scientific thought," it is properly said, " we mean the application of past experience to new...circumstances by means of an observed order of events." Here there are three conceptions requisite for scientific procedure : (i) past experience, (2) new... | |
 | Alexander Macfarlane - 1916 - 162 páginas
...instruments of scientific thought." The main theses of the lecture are First, that scientific thought is the application of past experience to new circumstances by means of an observed order of events. Second, this order of events is not th oreti ally or absolutely exact, but only exa,ct enough to correct... | |
 | Alexander Macfarlane - 1916 - 164 páginas
...instruments of scientific thought." The main theses of the lecture are First, that scientific thought is the application of past experience to new circumstances by means of an observed order of events. Second, this order of events is not th oreti ally or absolutely exact, but only exact enough to correct... | |
 | 1918 - 966 páginas
...main theses will make the position clearer. Clifford emphasizes that scientific thought is essentially the application of past experience to new circumstances by means of an observed order of events, and that its chief business, therefore, is to be the guide of action. Whatever be the particular subject-matter... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - 1879 - 670 páginas
...infallibility attaching to his work and to reopen the question for solution by scientific thought—" the application of past experience to new circumstances, by means of an observed order of events," as Clifford put it. In the first place, what are the "well-ascertained and solid facts" of Heer ? I... | |
 | 1873 - 1098 páginas
...ошсев of ,fivcerino • experience, then we may say as the result of our investi- -e < - ' gation, that to every reasonable question there is an intelligible...exact, because we do not know. The process of inference wo found to be in itself an assumption of uniformity, and that as the known exactness of the uniformity... | |
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