Excerpt from Physical Realism: Being an Analytical Philosophy From the Physical Objects of Science to the Physical Data of Sense The distinction between the sensible and the scien tific, the apparent and the real, the perceptible and the imperceptible, is not only a scientific fact but has be come a. Commonplace in natural philosophy, without having produced any marked effect in mental philo sophy. Astronomy has long opposed the real to the apparent motions of celestial bodies; and Sir Isaac Newton carried this contrast so ...
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Excerpt from Physical Realism: Being an Analytical Philosophy From the Physical Objects of Science to the Physical Data of Sense The distinction between the sensible and the scien tific, the apparent and the real, the perceptible and the imperceptible, is not only a scientific fact but has be come a. Commonplace in natural philosophy, without having produced any marked effect in mental philo sophy. Astronomy has long opposed the real to the apparent motions of celestial bodies; and Sir Isaac Newton carried this contrast so far as to oppose abso lute, true and mathematical, to relative, apparent and common, time and space. In physics, apparent size is the room which a body seems to occupy, physical size is the real space taken up by its particles. Not only physics, but chemistry and biology unite in the anti thesis of molar and molecular motion, in recognising therefore motions which are for the most part imper ceptible, in resolving what seem to our senses to be heterogeneous qualities into mere varieties of imper ceptible motion, and in referring these motions to particles which are as imperceptible as the motions themselves. In all these sciences the latent structures and processes of things are opposed to their external appearances and perceptible changes. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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