Erkenntnis und Irrtum: Skizzen zur Psychologie der Forschung

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Barth, 1905 - Knowledge, Theory of - 461 pages
Psychologie / Wissenschaften.
 

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Page 224 - 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.
Page 223 - It is inconceivable that inanimate brute matter should without the mediation of something else, which is not material, operate upon and affect other matter without mutual contact, as it must be if gravitation, in the sense of Epicurus, be essential and inherent in it.
Page 3 - Ein isoliertes Ich gibt es ebensowenig als ein isoliertes Ding. Ding und Ich sind provisorische Fiktionen gleicher Art.
Page 239 - ... bene, ma gli mostra assai indistinti ed abbagliati; adunque un vetro solo non basta per produr l'effetto. Passando poi a...
Page 133 - ... limbs. . . . The magnifying glass adds but another lens to the lenses existing in the eye. The crowbar is but one more lever attached to the series of levers forming the arm and hand. And the relationship, which is so obvious in these first steps, holds throughout.
Page 301 - But still there is a great difference in the character of their movements. Deduction descends steadily and methodically, step by step : Induction mounts by a leap which is out of the reach of method. She bounds to the top of the stair at once...
Page 224 - It is impossible by means of inanimate material agency to derive mechanical effect from any portion of matter by cooling it below the temperature of the coldest of the surrounding objects.
Page 223 - You sometimes speak of gravity as essential and inherent to matter. Pray do not ascribe that notion to me; for the cause of gravity is what I do not pretend to know, and therefore would take more time to consider of it.
Page 299 - Wenn dem so ist, was soll es dann noch heißen, daß »alle« Erkenntnis aus der »Beobachtung« stamme? Man vergleiche die Erklärung, die MACH vom Urteil gibt: »Indem wir eine Seite eines Erlebnisses durch eine andere uns auffallende oder wichtig scheinende als näher bestimmt ansehen...

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