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Page 154
... force . " I reverse the matter . I desire that every force in nature be understood in terms of will . This is not mere quibbling . For at the basis of the conception of force , as of all conceptions except will , there lies the sense ...
... force . " I reverse the matter . I desire that every force in nature be understood in terms of will . This is not mere quibbling . For at the basis of the conception of force , as of all conceptions except will , there lies the sense ...
Page 272
... force , life force , sleeping force , and so on . Newton himself looked upon gravitation as a fiction . The phenomena which it correlated are , of course , real enough , but to attribute some gravitational force to them is simply a ...
... force , life force , sleeping force , and so on . Newton himself looked upon gravitation as a fiction . The phenomena which it correlated are , of course , real enough , but to attribute some gravitational force to them is simply a ...
Page 407
... force which lies back of them . Might does not make right . Thus : Suppose that " force " creates " right . " The result is a mass of nonsense . For , if force creates right , then every force that is greater than the first succeeds to ...
... force which lies back of them . Might does not make right . Thus : Suppose that " force " creates " right . " The result is a mass of nonsense . For , if force creates right , then every force that is greater than the first succeeds to ...
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