 | John Stuart Mill - 1856 - 560 pagina’s
...certainty, or even with any high degree of probability. Yet no one doubts that the phenomena depend on laws, and that these must be derivative laws resulting...natural requisite for being, but actually is, a science ; though, from the difficulty of observing the facts on which the phenomena depend (a difficulty inherent... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1858 - 666 pagina’s
...it is implied in many commoti modes of speech, that the thoughts, feelings, and actions of sentiem beings are not a subject of science, in the same strict...future time. Meteorology, therefore, not only has in itseli every natural requisite for being, but actually is, a science ; although, from the difficulty... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1897 - 416 pagina’s
...be derivative laws resulting from known ultimate laws — those of heat, electricity, vaporisation, and elastic fluids. Nor can it be doubted that if...natural requisite for being, but actually is, a science ; though, from the difficulty of observing the facts on which the phenomena depend (a difficulty inherent... | |
 | Patrick L. Gardiner - 1968 - 472 pagina’s
...certainty or even with any high degree of probability. Yet no one doubts that the phenomena depend on laws, and that these must be derivative laws resulting from known ultimate laws, those of heat, electricity, vaporisation, and elastic fluids. Nor can it be doubted that if we were acquainted with... | |
 | S. Turner - 1986 - 282 pagina’s
...difficulty of procuring data preclude strong prediction. "Yet no one doubts that the phenomena depend on laws, and that these must be derivative laws resulting from known ultimate laws, those of heat, electricity, vaporization, and elastic fluids" (Mill, 1974, p. 844). Mill made little more of this... | |
 | Katharine Anderson - 2010 - 342 pagina’s
...exact predictions of rain or sunshine, "yet no one doubts that the [meteorological] phenomena depend on laws, and that these must be derivative laws resulting from known ultimate laws, those of heat, electricity, vaporization and elastic fluids." Meteorology as a science, then, faces the same problems... | |
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... Scientific inquiry has not yet succeeded in ascertaining the order of antecedence and consequence among these phenomena, so as to be able, at least in our regions of the earth, to predict them with certainty, or even with any high degree of probability.... 