 | John Theodore Merz - Philosophy, Modern - 1912 - 848 pages
...At the end of his paper on physical lines of force, Maxwell touches on the philosophical question, "how much evidence the explanation of phenomena lends...kind have been discovered ; and the fact that they SCIENTIFIC THOUGHT. 51. Correupondence between velocities of light and of e ectricity. The idea of... | |
 | Thomas K. Simpson - Biography & Autobiography - 1997 - 468 pages
...complicated and various, that the explanation of any number of them by several different hypotheses must be interesting, not only to physicists, but to all who...credibility of a theory, or how far we ought to regard a coinci630 dence in the mathematical expression of two sets of phenomena as an indication that these... | |
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... interesting, not only to physicists, but to all who desire to understand how much evidence the explanation of phenomena lends to the credibility of a theory, or how far we ought to regard a coincidence in the mathematical expression of two sets of... 