Matter for Materialists: a series of letters in vindication and extension of the principles regarding the nature of existence of ... Dr. Berkeley, etc1870 |
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Matter for Materialists: Letters in Vindication of the Principles Regarding ... Thomas Doubleday Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2016 |
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Seite 67 - 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, is to me so great an absurdity that I believe no man who has in philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking can ever fall into it.
Seite 66 - I desired you would not ascribe innate gravity to me. 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...
Seite 31 - The further the mind analyseth and pursueth these fugitive ideas the more it is lost and bewildered; the objects, at first fleeting and minute, soon vanishing out of sight.
Seite 31 - ... nascenti, in their very first origin or beginning to exist, before they become finite particles. And it seems still more difficult to conceive the abstracted velocities of such nascent imperfect entities. But the velocities of the velocities, the second, third, fourth, and fifth velocities, &c.
Seite 31 - These are said not to be moments, but quantities generated from moments, which last are only the nascent principles of finite quantities. It is said, that the minutest errors are not to be neglected in mathematics: that the fluxions are celerities, not proportional to the finite increments though ever so small ; but only to the moments of nascent increments, whereof the proportion alone, and not the magnitude, is considered.
Seite 108 - During the tumult, some neighbours came in and separated the men. While in this state of strong excitement the mother took up her child from the cradle where it lay playing, and in the most perfect health, never having had a moment's illness ; she gave it the breast, and in so doing sealed its fate. In a few minutes the infant left off sucking, became restless, panted, and sank dead upon its mother's bosom.
Seite 33 - But it should seem that this reasoning is not fair or conclusive. For when it is said, let the increments vanish, ie let the increments be nothing, or let there be no increments, the former supposition that the increments were something, or that there were increments, is destroyed, and yet a consequence of that supposition, ie an expression got by virtue thereof, is retained.
Seite xiii - I do not argue against the existence of any one thing that we can apprehend, either by sense or reflection. That the things I see with my eyes and touch with my hands do exist, really exist, I make not the least question. The only thing whose existence we deny is that which philosophers call Matter or corporeal substance.
Seite 82 - ... now universally received, light consists of a vibratory motion of the molecules of the luminous body ; but how is this motion transmitted to our organs of sight ? Sound has the air as its medium, and a close examination of the phenomena of light, by the most refined and demonstrative experiments, has led philosophers to the conclusion that space is occupied by a substance almost infinitely elastic, through which the pulses of light make their way.
Seite 108 - A carpenter fell into a quarrel with a soldier billeted in his house, and was set upon by the latter with his drawn sword. The wife of the carpenter at first trembled from fear and terror, and then suddenly threw herself furiously between the combatants, wrested the sword from the soldier's hand, broke it in pieces, and threw it away. During the tumult some neighbors came in and separated the men.