 | Robert Flint - 1879 - 600 lapas
...do not pretend to know." Many of them will not refuse assent even to his much stronger statement : " That gravity should be innate, inherent, and essential...competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it." The materialist is not entitled, then, to assume that the phenomena ascribed to attraction will... | |
 | Karl Raimund Popper - 1998 - 356 lapas
...gravitation is a theory of action at a distance. Yet Newton himself rejected action at a distance as 'so great an absurdity that I believe no man who has...a competent faculty of thinking can ever fall into it'. These are strong words - even stronger, perhaps, than those used by the goddess in condemnation... | |
 | Roberto Torretti - 1999 - 532 lapas
...something else which is not material, operate upon and affect other matter without mutual contact [. . .]. That gravity should be innate, inherent, and essential...a competent faculty of thinking can ever fall into it. Gravity must be caused by an agent acting constantly according to certain laws, but whether this... | |
 | Alan A. Grometstein - 1999 - 620 lapas
...else, which is not material, operate upon and affect other matter without mutual contact. . . . [Tjhat one body may act upon another at a distance through...philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking, could ever fall into it.19 Physicists addressing Maxwell's equations did not challenge these features... | |
 | Banesh Hoffmann - 1999 - 194 lapas
...that one hody may act upon another at a distance through a vacuum, without the mediation of any thing else, by and through which their action and force...competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it. A second problem concerned absolute space. In his Principia Newton argued powerfully for the absoluteness... | |
 | Andrew E. Chubykalo, Pope, Viv, Roman Smirnov-Rueda - 1999 - 476 lapas
...that one Body may act upon another at a Distance, thro' a Vacuum, without the Mediation of any thing else, by and through which their Action and Force...competent Faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it" [1]. If Newton, who is sometimes considered to have introduced action at a distance into physics,... | |
 | François Rothen - 1999 - 898 lapas
...That one body may act upon another at a distance through a vacuum, without the mediation of anythinq else, by and through which their action and force....competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it». Citation tirée de A Journey into Gravity and Spacetime, JA Wheeler, Scientific American Library,... | |
 | Thomas Vargish, Delo E. Mook - 1999 - 228 lapas
...that one body may act upon another at a distance through a vacuum, without the mediation of any thing else, by and through which their action and force...competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it.7 But in the minds of his successors, any misgivings about innate gravity were overwhelmed by the... | |
 | Remi Hakim - 1999 - 290 lapas
...without the mediation of anything else, by and through which their action and force may be coin-eyed tram one to another, is to me so great an absurdity, that...competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it." [cited by B. Hoffman, H. Dukas (1972)]. is not estimated by collisions, but using Kepler's third... | |
 | Peter Poellner - 2000 - 340 lapas
...only given one myth for another' (ibid. 37i!. mediation of anything else, by and through which that action and force may be conveyed from one to another,...competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it.41 But it is George Berkeley's essay 'On Motion' which provides the philosophical locus classicus... | |
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That gravity should be innate, inherent, and essential to matter, so that one body may act upon another at a distance through a vacuum, without the mediation of anything else, by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to another,... 
