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... mechanical , the physical , the biological , the statistical , and the psychophysical views of Nature , and that it is my intention to close the first part of my subject by an attempt to trace concisely the development of mathematical ...
... mechanical , the physical , the biological , the statistical , and the psychophysical views of Nature , and that it is my intention to close the first part of my subject by an attempt to trace concisely the development of mathematical ...
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... Mechanical view in biology , 219 ; Criticism of principles of mathe- matics , 221 ; The exact , the historical , and the critical habits of thought , 222 . CHAPTER III . THE SCIENTIFIC SPIRIT IN ENGLAND . Scientific organisation abroad ...
... Mechanical view in biology , 219 ; Criticism of principles of mathe- matics , 221 ; The exact , the historical , and the critical habits of thought , 222 . CHAPTER III . THE SCIENTIFIC SPIRIT IN ENGLAND . Scientific organisation abroad ...
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... , which are not in the objects or process of nature themselves , but are contained only in his own think- ing mind . It may be that a mechanical and mindless series ― of changes can produce numbers without end , or 2 INTRODUCTION .
... , which are not in the objects or process of nature themselves , but are contained only in his own think- ing mind . It may be that a mechanical and mindless series ― of changes can produce numbers without end , or 2 INTRODUCTION .
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... mechanical philosophy ' conceived -nothing less than such a univer- sal construction of human know- ledge as would bring Society and Man within the same principles of scientific explanation as were found applicable to the world of ...
... mechanical philosophy ' conceived -nothing less than such a univer- sal construction of human know- ledge as would bring Society and Man within the same principles of scientific explanation as were found applicable to the world of ...
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... mechanical method by which something of higher value is accomplished . He admits the all - pervad- ing rule of such a mechanism , but he urges the necessity of finding the substance itself , and of gaining a view of the end and aim ...
... mechanical method by which something of higher value is accomplished . He admits the all - pervad- ing rule of such a mechanism , but he urges the necessity of finding the substance itself , and of gaining a view of the end and aim ...
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