 | Thomas Brown - 1822 - 552 pàgines
...reference to the antecedent, which we denominate a cause. To express, shortly, what appears to me to be the only intelligible meaning of the three most important words in physics, immediate invariable antecedence, is power, — the immediate invariable antecedent, in any sequence,... | |
 | Noah Webster - 1823 - 384 pàgines
...relation is all which constitutes power. Brown. Lecture 7. " To express shortly what appears to me to be the only intelligible meaning of the three most important words in physics, immediate invariable antecedence is power — the immediate invariable antecedent, in any sequence,... | |
 | Thomas Brown - 1826 - 548 pàgines
...reference, to the antecedent, which we denominate a cause. To express, shortly, what appears to me to be the only intelligible meaning of the three most important words in physics, immediate invariable antecedence is power, — the immediate invariable antecedent, in any sequence,... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 810 pàgines
...reference to the antecedent, which we denominate a cause. To express, shortly, what appears to me to be the only intelligible meaning of the three most important words in physics, immediate, invariable, antecedent, is power; the immediate invariable antecedent, in any sequence,... | |
 | Isaac Preston Cory - 1833 - 514 pàgines
...following as a summary of his doctrine of Causation. — " To express shortly what appears to me to be the only intelligible meaning of the three most important words in Physics : Immediate invariable antecedence is Power. The immediate invariable antecedent, in any sequence,... | |
 | William Jerdan - 1834 - 418 pàgines
...existence of its object." In another place he says, " To express, shortly, what appears to me to be the only intelligible meaning of the three most important words in physics,* immediate invariable antecedence, is power; the immediate invariable antecedent in any sequence, is... | |
 | Alexander Bryan Johnson - 1836 - 290 pàgines
...of the Mind, Lecture VIL mystery ; yet all which is mysterious in it vanishes, when it is regarded as only a general term, expressive of invariable antecedence...intelligible meaning of the three most important words in physicks, power, cause, and effect, we may say that power is immediate invariable antecedence ; —... | |
 | William Brown Galloway - 1837 - 570 pàgines
...invariable consequent an effect /" And again he says,* " To express, shortly, what appears to me to be the only intelligible meaning of the three most important words in physics, immediate invariable antecedence is power, — the immediate invariable antecedent, in any sequence,... | |
 | Thomas Brown, David Welsh - 1846 - 580 pàgines
...reference to the antecedent, which we denominate a cause. To express, shortly, what appears to me to be the only intelligible meaning of the three most important words in physics, immediate invariable antecedence is power ; the immediate invariable antecedent, in any sequence, is... | |
 | Thomas Brown, James Parkinson Boyle - 1849 - 370 pàgines
...bondage ; for if any thing else intervened, it would itself be a part of the train. This, then, is the only intelligible meaning of the three most important words in physics — power, cause, and effect. Immediate invariable antecedence is power ; the immediate invariable antecedent in any sequence, is... | |
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To express, shortly, what appears to me to be the only intelligible meaning of the three most important words in physics, immediate invariable antecedence, is power, — the immediate invariable antecedent, in any sequence, is a cause. — the immediate... 