...this defect of their philosophical character to reside in the exclusive activity of such qualities, is at least so far just. 5. We come back again, therefore,...distinct and appropriate to the facts. The peculiar characters of scientific ideas, which I have endeavoured to express by speaking of them as distinct...

...this defect of their philosophical character to reside in the exclusive activity of such qualities, is at least so far just. 5. We come back again, therefore,...distinct and appropriate to the facts. The peculiar characters of scientific ideas, which I have endeavoured to express by speaking of them as which we...

...this defect of their philosophical character to reside in the exclusive activity of such qualities, is at least so far just. 5. We come back again, therefore,...ideas were not distinct and appropriate to the facts. distinct and appropriate to the facts, must be more fully and formally set forth, when we come to the...

...in the physical speculations of the 4 Greek Philosophical Schools' was, that though they possessed facts and ideas, the ideas were not distinct and appropriate to the facts. The peculiar characters of such scientific ideas he proposes to set forth more fully and formally in his ulterior...

...asserts more than this ; it asserts that .r, the unexperimented plants, are sour; or that or, stones facts and ideas, the ideas were not distinct and appropriate to the facts." Ideas, the consequence of experiment, cannot be here meant. That the Greeks, in trying to account for...

...two things requisite to science, facts and ideas; the fatal defect of the Greek philosophical schools was, that though they had in their possession facts and ideas, the ideas were neither distinct nor appropriate to the facts. Aristotle, who knew the property of the lever, and many...

...to this inquiry must be in the negative, that we need not dwell upon it. No one who knows anything of the history of the ancient Greek mind, can question,...Ideas were not distinct and appropriate to the Facts (D). The peculiar characteristics of scientific ideas, which I have endeavoured to express by speaking...

...defect in the physical speculations of the Greek philosophical schools, was, that though they possessed facts and ideas, the ideas were not distinct and appropriate to the facts." Mr. Whewell proceeds : " One of the facts which Aristotle endeavours to explain is this : that when...

...1 To this I answer : The defect was, that though they had in their possession Facts and Ideas, tlie Ideas were not distinct and appropriate to the Facts....characteristics of scientific ideas, which I have endeavoured to express by speaking of them as distinct and appropriate to the facts, must be more fully...

...? Was there a want among them of mental activity, and logical connection of thought ? But it is so obvious that the answer to this inquiry must be in...subject. In the mean time, the reader will probably hare no difficulty in conceiving that, for each class of Facts, there is ' some special set of Ideas,...