 For these hypotheses need not be true nor even probable; if they provide a calculus consistent with the observations, that alone is sufficient.  Descartes: A Biography - 2. lappuseautors: Desmond M. Clarke - 2006 - 507 lapasIerobežota priekšskatīšana - Par šo grāmatu
 | B. Biékowska - 1973 - 170 lapas
...revolutionibus to the level of a hypothesis: . . . these hypotheses need not be true or even probable, if they provide a calculus consistent with the observations, that alone is sufficient... For it is quite clear that the causes of the apparent unequal motions are completely... | |
 | N. Rescher - 1987 - 188 lapas
...has performed both these duties excellently. For these hypotheses need not be true nor even probable; if they provide a calculus consistent with the observations that alone is sufficient.16 Exactly this insistence that scientific theories are mere utilitarian hypotheses that... | |
 | Julian B. Barbour - 1988 - 784 lapas
...as well as for the past. The present author has performed both these duties excellently. For these hypotheses need not be true nor even probable. On...consistent with the observations, that alone is enough.' (This passage must have rather mystified the early reader of the book, since if one thing shines through... | |
 | Alexandre Koyré - 1992 - 546 lapas
...has performed both these duties excellently. For these hypotheses need not be true nor even probable; if they provide a calculus consistent with the observations, that alone is sufficient. Perhaps there is someone who is so ignorant of geometry and optics that he regards the... | |
 | David Luban - 1997 - 424 lapas
...geometry, for the future as well as the past. . . . [T]hese hypotheses need not be true nor even probable; if they provide a calculus consistent with the observations, that alone is suff1cient. . . . And if any causes are devised by the imagination, as indeed very many are, they are... | |
 | P. K. Feyerabend - 1999 - 274 lapas
...oft-defamed Osiander in his notorious preface to Copernicus' main work: 'For these hypotheses need not to be true nor even probable. On the contrary, if they...consistent with the observations, that alone is enough. Perhaps there is someone who is so ignorant of geometry and optics that he regards the epicycle of... | |
 | Karsten Harries - 2001 - 400 lapas
...truth as they are described. As Osiander put it: "These hypotheses need not be true or even probable; if they provide a calculus consistent with the observations that alone is sufficient."2 Osiander here shares what we can call the astronomical resignation of the medievals.... | |
 | Hasan S. Padamsee - 2002 - 708 lapas
...convenient for astronomical computations [33]: These hypotheses need not be true or even probable; if they provide a calculus consistent with the observations, that alone is sufficient. Osiander 's aim may have been to prevent the work from being immediately declared as heretical... | |
 | John Losee - 2004 - 200 lapas
...geometry, for the future as well as for the past .... These hypotheses need not be true nor even probable; if they provide a calculus consistent with the observations, that alone is sufficient.28 Predictively successful mathematical models can be formulated for any periodic process.... | |
 | Phil Dowe - 2005 - 220 lapas
...fitting the observational data. Osiander says these hypotheses need not be true nor even probable; if they provide a calculus consistent with the observations, that alone is sufficient.5 On this view, astronomy may be valuable and capable of progress, but it does not tell... | |
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