| Michael Ruse - 2005 - 344 páginas
...an acid cannot strictly be said to elect the base with which it in preference combines. It has been said that I speak of natural selection as an active...attraction of gravity as ruling the movements of the planets?"1 The same is true today. Edward O. Wilson performed his miracles of understanding about the... | |
| Peter Dear - 2008 - 254 páginas
...an acid cannot strictly be said to elect the base with which it in preference combines. It has been said that I speak of natural selection as an active...of gravity as ruling the movements of the planets? Everyone knows what is meant and is implied by such metaphorical expressions; and they are almost necessary... | |
| Boaventura de Sousa Santos - 2007 - 472 páginas
...a meaning can be legitimate metaphorically speaking, and false if literally taken. But he says that "every one knows what is meant and is implied by such...expressions: and they are almost necessary for brevity." Aristotle Allege that the action performed is not harmful to the opponent (Rhetoric, Book III, chapter... | |
| Nathaniel C. Comfort - 2007 - 196 páginas
..."elective affinity" is the example he gives — and that physicists speak of the "attraction of gravity" ruling the movements of the planets. "Every one knows...and is implied by such metaphorical expressions," he says, and "they are almost necessary for brevity." The metaphorical basis of his style is central... | |
| Robert G. B. Reid - 2009 - 536 páginas
...admission: In the literal sense of the word, no doubt, natural selection is a false term. ... It has been said that I speak of natural selection as an active power or Deity. . . . Everyone knows what is meant and is implied by such metaphorical expressions; and they are almost... | |
| John Pettegrew - 2007 - 434 páginas
...of Chicago Press, 1995). 53. Darwin explicitly recognized the point in On the Origin of the Species: "Every one knows what is meant and is implied by such metaphorical expression, and they are almost necessary for brevity." On the Origin of the Species (1859; repr.,... | |
| Peter W. Graham - 2008 - 228 páginas
...its figurative features, as is the case when chemists say "elective affinity" or "astronomers speak of the attraction of gravity as ruling the movements of the planets" (VI, 6-7). What's good about the term "natural selection," claims Darwin, is that it linguistically... | |
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