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...given at once by the experimental result of the trial. Imagine the masses involved to be perfectly rigid (ie incapable of changing their form or dimensions)...forces instead of a practically infinite number." * 69. "Were the whole circle of the sciences to pass before us, each would in turn display the essentially...

...given at once by the experimental result of the trial. Imagine the masses involved to be perfectly rigid (ie, incapable of changing their form or dimensions)...forces really acting may be left out of consideration ; sio that the mathematical investigation deals with a finite (and generally small) number of forces...

...Principiaf III. Prop. vii. Corol. i. t THOMSON AND TAIT, Natural Philosophy, I. 337. data" and thus " the infinite series of forces really acting may be...forces, instead of a practically infinite number." * If, then, Science is, in its nature, an ideal construction, and its truths are only truths of symbols...

...are reached " are attained by a species of abstraction or rather limitation of the .data, and thus the infinite series of forces really acting may be left out of consideration." In science, then, the problems solved do not reproduce the actual order in its real complexity, and...

...the masses involved to be perfectly rigid, that is, incapable of changing form or dimensions. Then the infinite series of forces, really acting, may...a substitution is to be established thus. 441. The effects of the intermolecular forces could be exhibited only in alterations of the form or volume of...

...are reached ' are obtained by a species of abstraction, or rather limitation of the data,' and thus ' the infinite series of forces really acting may be...forces, instead of a practically infinite number.> ' " If, then, Science is, in its nature, an ideal construction, and its truths are only symbols which...

...are reached ' are obtained by a species of abstraction, or rather limitation of the data,' and thus ' the infinite series of forces really acting may be...forces, instead of a practically infinite number.' ' " If, then, Science is, in its nature, an ideal construction, and its truths are only symbols which...

...which are reached " are attained by a species of abstraction or rather limitation of the data, and thus the infinite series of forces really acting may be left •out of consideration." In science, then, the problems solved do not reproduce the actual order in its real complexity, and...

...dynamics applied to systems composed of only a finite number of parts (particles), related by only a 'finite (and generally small) number of forces, instead of a practically infinite number'. In such circumstances, abstractions like 'rigid' and 'elastic' became reasonable approximations. It...