 | John Archibald Wheeler - 2010 - 388 pàgines
...distance through a vacuum, without the mediation of anything else, ... is to me so great an absurdity, that I believe no man who has in philosophical matters a competent faculty for thinking, can ever fall into it." In other words, it makes no sense (said Newton) to imagine a... | |
 | Gerald James Holton, Stephen G. Brush - 2001 - 604 pàgines
...through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity, that I believe no man who has in philosophical matters...faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it. Gravity must be caused by an agent acting constantly according to certain laws; but whether this agent be material... | |
 | Hans Christian Von Baeyer - 2001 - 196 pàgines
...across empty space without the benefit of an intermediary is, in Newton's words, "so great an Absurdity, that I believe no man who has in philosophical Matters...competent Faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it." When the balloonist grows similarly disenchanted with that explanation, he surmises that the cloth... | |
 | Muriel Lederman, Ingrid Bartsch - 2001 - 528 pàgines
...[particles] contain," should be innate, inherent and essential to Matter ... is to me so great an Absurditv, that I believe no Man who has in philosophical Matters a competent Facultv ot thinking, can ever fall into it. (inDeason I986:l83) For Newton, alt motion and all life... | |
 | Gary Moring - 2002 - 382 pàgines
...through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity that I believe no man who has in philosophical matters...faculty of thinking can ever fall into it. Gravity must be caused by an agent acting constantly according to certain laws, but whether this agent be material... | |
 | Noam Chomsky - 2002 - 220 pàgines
...distance, in violation of the basic principles of the mechanical philosophy, as "so great an Absurdity that I believe no Man who has in philosophical matters...competent Faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it." Nonetheless, he was forced to conclude that the Absurdity "does really exist." "Newton had no physical... | |
 | Noam Chomsky - 2003 - 500 pàgines
...princi78 Chomsky on Democracy and Education pies of the mechanical philosophy, as "so great an Absurdity that I believe no Man who has in philosophical matters...competent Faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it." Nonetheless, he was forced to conclude that the absurdity "does really exist." "Newton had no physical... | |
 | Karl Raimund Popper - 2002 - 616 pàgines
...essential to matter, so that one body may act upon another at a distance ... is to me so great an absurdity that I believe no man who has in philosophical matters...competent faculty of thinking can ever fall into it.' It is interesting to see that Newton condemned here, in anticipation, the bulk of his followers. To... | |
 | Paul J. Nahin - 2002 - 362 pàgines
...Action and Force may he conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an Ahsurdity, that I helieve no Man who has in philosophical Matters a competent...Faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it. Gravity must he caused hy an Agent acting constantly according to certain Laws; hut whether this Agent he material... | |
 | Brian David Ellis - 2002 - 196 pàgines
...action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity that I believe that no man who has in philosophical matters 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 agent be material... | |
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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,... 
