1889, ISBN: 9780217241267

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[ED: Softcover], [PU: Cambridge Scholars Publishing], Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: NEW ENGLANDER YALE REVIEW. No. CCXXXII. JULY, 1889. Article I.?SCIENCE AND MIRACLE. Is every discussion it is desirable to start from admitted facts, upon which all agree. When this is done, then any conclusions which are found to be inevitable and necessary deductions from those facts are sure of acceptance. In Geometry, for example, we start from certain fundamental postulates, which are so self-evident that one might almost be pardoned for calling them truisms, and even rather trivial truisms at that and we might at first sight, perhaps, be inclined to doubt that any worthy results could follow from the combination of such universally acknowledged and superficial facts. Every one knows such facts, and they have always been known and acted upon by every reasoning being. It scarcely seems possible that any thing of value can come from merely formulating and combining them. But yet it is by just such combination of admitted facts in sound logical sequence, that every Vol. xv. 1 science has been built up, and the conclusions thus formed are found to be really valuable, and by no means superficial or self- evident. We thus very soon learn the lesson that no fact is trivial or insignificant. Indeed, without this conviction the discovery of new facts would lose all significance, and the physical experimenter would labor without inducement. For what is any physical fact by itself, but a detached stone of the Temple of Science ? It is because that stone has a place in the structure that it possesses value, and the structure itself is the result of related facts, which we call conclusions. These conclusions we are obliged to accept as expressing true relations, if we can detect no flaw in the logical sequence. Thus, if any one seeks to assault the conclusions of Geo...Versandfertig in 6-10 Tagen, [SC: 0.00]<

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New Englander and Yale Review Vol. 51 Author :Edward Royall Tyler George Park Fisher Timothy Dwight William Lathrop Kingsley 9780217241267 0217241263

2010, ISBN: 9780217241267

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ISBN: 0217241263