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§ 1 Science and the Present |
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1 | (6) |
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§ 2 Science and Citizenship |
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7 | (3) |
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§ 3 The First Claim of Science |
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10 | (1) |
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§ 4 Essentials of Good Science |
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11 | (3) |
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14 | (4) |
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§ 6 Science and Metaphysics |
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18 | (5) |
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§ 7 The Ignorance of Science |
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23 | (6) |
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§ 8 The Wide Domain of Science |
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29 | (2) |
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§ 9 The Second Claim of Science |
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31 | (4) |
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§ 10 The Third Claim of Science |
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35 | (1) |
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§ 11 Science and the Imagination |
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36 | (3) |
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§ 12 The Method of Science Illustrated |
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39 | (3) |
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§ 13 Science and the Æsthetic Judgment |
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42 | (2) |
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§ 14 The Fourth Claim of Science |
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44 | (3) |
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45 | (2) |
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Chapter II The Facts Of Science |
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§ 1 The Reality of Things |
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47 | (3) |
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§ 2 Sense-Impressions and Consciousness |
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50 | (3) |
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§ 3 The Brain as a Central Telephone Exchange |
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53 | (2) |
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§ 4 The Nature of Thought |
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55 | (4) |
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§ 5 Other-Consciousness as an Eject |
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59 | (2) |
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§ 6 Attitude of Science towards Ejects |
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61 | (3) |
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§ 7 The Scientific Validity of a Conception |
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64 | (3) |
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§ 8 The Scientific Validity of an Inference |
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67 | (2) |
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§ 9 The limits to Other-Consciousness |
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69 | (2) |
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§ 10 The Canons of Legitimate Inference |
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71 | (2) |
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§ 11 The External Universe |
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73 | (4) |
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§ 12 Outside and Inside Myself |
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77 | (3) |
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§ 13 Sensations as the Ultimate Source of the Materials of Knowledge |
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80 | (3) |
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83 | (3) |
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86 | (1) |
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§ 16 The Futility of "Things-in-Themselves" |
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87 | (2) |
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§ 17 The Term Knowledge is meaningless if applied to Unthinkable Things |
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89 | (3) |
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90 | (2) |
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Chapter III The Scientific Law |
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92 | (2) |
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§ 2 Of the Word Law and its Meanings |
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94 | (5) |
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§ 3 Natural Law Relative to Man |
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99 | (3) |
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§ 4 Man as the Maker of Natural Law |
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102 | (2) |
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§ 5 The Two Senses of the Words "Natural Law" |
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104 | (2) |
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§ 6 Confusion between the Two Senses of Natural Law |
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106 | (3) |
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§ 7 The Reason behind Nature |
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109 | (2) |
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§ 8 True Relation of Civil and Natural Law |
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111 | (3) |
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§ 9 Physical and Metaphysical Supersensuousness |
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114 | (2) |
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§ 10 Progress in the Formulating of Natural Law |
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116 | (4) |
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§ 11 The Universality of Scientific Law |
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120 | (2) |
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§ 12 The Routine of Perceptions as possibly a Product of the Perceptive Faculty |
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122 | (6) |
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§ 13 The Mind as a Sorting-Machine |
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128 | (1) |
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§ 14 Science, Natural Theology, and Metaphysics |
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129 | (2) |
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131 | (5) |
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135 | (1) |
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Chapter IV Cause And Effect. Probability |
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136 | (4) |
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140 | (3) |
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143 | (1) |
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§ 4 Secondary Causes Involve no Enforcement |
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144 | (3) |
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§ 5 Is Will a First Cause? |
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147 | (1) |
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§ 6 Will as a Secondary Cause |
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148 | (3) |
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§ 7 First Causes have no Existence for Science |
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151 | (2) |
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§ 8 Cause and Effect as the Routine of Experience |
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153 | (3) |
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§ 9 Width of the Term Cause |
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156 | (1) |
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§ 10 The Universe of Sense-Impressions as a Universe of Motions |
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157 | (3) |
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§ 11 Necessity belongs to the World of Conceptions, not to that of Perceptions |
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160 | (2) |
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§ 12 Routine in Perception is a Necessary Condition of Knowledge |
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162 | (4) |
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§ 13 Probable and Provable |
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166 | (4) |
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§ 14 Probability as to Breaches in the Routine of Perceptions |
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170 | (1) |
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§ 15 The Basis of Laplace's Theory in an Experience of Ignorance |
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171 | (5) |
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§ 16 Nature of Laplace's Investigations |
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176 | (1) |
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§ 17 The Permanency of Routine for the Future |
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177 | (4) |
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180 | (1) |
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§ 1 Space as a Mode of Perception |
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181 | (6) |
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§ 2 The Infinite Bigness of Space |
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187 | (3) |
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§ 3 The Infinite Divisibility of Space |
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190 | (3) |
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§ 4 The Space of Memory and Thought |
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193 | (3) |
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§ 5 Conceptions and Perceptions |
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196 | (4) |
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§ 6 Sameness and Continuity |
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200 | (3) |
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§ 7 Conceptual Space, Geometrical Boundaries |
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203 | (3) |
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§ 8 Surfaces as Boundaries |
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206 | (2) |
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§ 9 Conceptual Discontinuity of Bodies. The Atom |
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208 | (5) |
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§ 10 Conceptual Continuity. Ether |
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213 | (1) |
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§ 11 On the General Nature of Scientific Conceptions |
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214 | (3) |
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§ 12 Time as a Mode of Perception |
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217 | (5) |
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§ 13 Conceptual Time and its Measurement |
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222 | (6) |
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§ 14 Concluding Remarks on Space and Time |
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228 | (3) |
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229 | (2) |
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Chapter VI The Geometry Of Motion |
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§ 1 Motion as the Mixed Mode of Perception |
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231 | (2) |
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§ 2 Conceptual Analysis of a Case of Perceptual Motion Point-Motion |
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233 | (4) |
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§ 3 Rigid Bodies as Geometrical Ideals |
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237 | (2) |
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§ 4 On Change of Aspect, or Rotation |
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239 | (3) |
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§ 5 On Change of Form, or Strain |
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242 | (4) |
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§ 6 Factors of Conceptual Motion |
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246 | (1) |
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§ 7 Point-Motion. Relative Character of Position and Motion |
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247 | (3) |
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§ 8 Position. The Map of the Path |
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250 | (3) |
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253 | (4) |
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257 | (3) |
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§ 11 Speed as a Slope. Velocity |
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260 | (2) |
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§ 12 The Velocity Diagram, or Hodograph. Acceleration |
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262 | (3) |
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§ 13 Acceleration as a Spurt and a Shunt |
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265 | (3) |
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268 | (5) |
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§ 15 The Relation between Curvature and Normal Acceleration |
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273 | (3) |
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§ 16 Fundamental Propositions in the Geometry of Motion |
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276 | (3) |
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§ 17 The Relativity of Motion. Its Synthesis from Simple Components |
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279 | (6) |
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284 | (1) |
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§ 1 "All Things Move"---but only in Conception |
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285 | (3) |
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288 | (3) |
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§ 3 How the Physicists define Matter |
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291 | (5) |
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§ 4 Does Matter occupy Space? |
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296 | (5) |
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§ 5 The "Common-sense" View of Matter---Impenetrable and Hard |
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301 | (2) |
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§ 6 Individuality does not denote Sameness in Substratum |
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303 | (5) |
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§ 7 Hardness not characteristic of Matter |
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308 | (2) |
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§ 8 Matter as Non-Matter in Motion |
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310 | (3) |
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§ 9 The Ether as "Perfect Fluid" and "Perfect Jelly" |
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313 | (3) |
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§ 10 The Vortex-Ring Atom and the Ether-Squirt Atom |
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316 | (3) |
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§ 11 A Material Loophole into the Supersensuous |
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319 | (4) |
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§ 12 The Difficulties of a Perceptual Ether |
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323 | (2) |
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325 | (7) |
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330 | (2) |
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Chapter VIII The Laws Of Motion |
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§ 1 Corpuscles and their Structure |
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332 | (5) |
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§ 2 The Limits to Mechanism |
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337 | (3) |
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§ 3 The First Law of Motion |
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340 | (2) |
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§ 4 The Second Law of Motion, or the Principle of Inertia |
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342 | (3) |
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§ 5 The Third Law of Motion. Acceleration is determined by Position |
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345 | (6) |
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§ 6 Velocity as an Epitome of Past History. Mechanism and Materialism |
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351 | (3) |
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§ 7 The Fourth Law of Motion |
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354 | (3) |
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§ 8 The Scientific Conception of Mass |
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357 | (2) |
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§ 9 The Fifth Law of Motion. The Definition of Force |
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359 | (4) |
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§ 10 Equality of Masses tested by Weighing |
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363 | (4) |
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§ 11 How far does the Mechanism of the Fourth and Fifth Laws of Motion extend? |
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367 | (3) |
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§ 12 Density as the Basis of the Kinetic Scale |
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370 | (4) |
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§ 13 The Influence of Aspect on the Corpuscular Dance |
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374 | (2) |
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§ 14 The Hypothesis of Modified Action and the Synthesis of Motion |
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376 | (4) |
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§ 15 Criticism of the Newtonian Laws of Motion |
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380 | (8) |
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386 | (2) |
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§ 1 The Relation of Biology to Physics |
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388 | (4) |
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392 | (3) |
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§ 3 Mechanism and Metaphysics in Theories of Heredity |
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395 | (5) |
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§ 4 The Definition of Living and Lifeless |
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400 | (4) |
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§ 5 Do the Laws of Motion apply to Life? |
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404 | (4) |
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§ 6 Life Defined by Secondary Characteristics |
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408 | (2) |
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410 | (1) |
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§ 8 The Perpetuity of Life, or Biogenesis |
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411 | (2) |
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§ 9 The Spontaneous Generation of Life, or Abiogenesis |
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413 | (4) |
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§ 10 The Origin of Life in an "ultra-scientific" Cause |
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417 | (3) |
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§ 11 On the Relation of the Conceptual Description to the Phenomenal World |
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420 | (2) |
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§ 12 Natural Selection in the Inorganic World |
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422 | (3) |
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§ 13 Natural Selection and the History of Man |
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425 | (3) |
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§ 14 Primitive History describable in terms of the Principles of Evolution |
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428 | (2) |
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§ 15 Morality and Natural Selection |
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430 | (4) |
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§ 16 Individualism, Socialism, and Humanism |
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434 | (7) |
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439 | (2) |
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Chapter X The Classification Of The Sciences |
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§ I Summary as to the Material of Science |
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441 | (2) |
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§ 2 Bacon's "Intellectual Globe" |
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443 | (3) |
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446 | (2) |
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§ 4 Spencer's Classification |
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448 | (4) |
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§ 5 Precise and Synoptic Sciences |
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452 | (2) |
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§ 6 Abstract and Concrete Sciences.---Abstract Science |
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454 | (5) |
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§ 7 Concrete Science.---Inorganic Phenomena |
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459 | (6) |
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§ 8 Concrete Science.---Organic Phenomena |
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465 | (4) |
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§ 9 Applied Mathematics and Bio-Physics as Cross Links |
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469 | (2) |
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471 | (6) |
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475 | (2) |
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Note I On the Principle of Inertia and Absolute Rotation |
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477 | (3) |
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Note II On Newton's Third Law of Motion |
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480 | (1) |
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Note III William of Occam's Razor |
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481 | (1) |
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Note IV On the Vitality of Seeds |
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482 | (1) |
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Note V A. R. Wallace on Matter |
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483 | (1) |
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Note VI On the Sufficiency of Natural Selection to account for the History of Civilized Man |
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Index |
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