 | 1873 - 798 ページ
...high order; but it is not scientific thought. On the other hand, Mr. Fleeming Jenkin * designs a roof consisting of two arches braced together, instead...of scientific thought. Let us take another example. Tou know that if you make a dot on a piece of paper, and then hold a piece of Iceland spar over it,... | |
 | Sir George Grove, David Masson, John Morley, Mowbray Morris - 1872 - 532 ページ
...load, and this prediction may be trusted with perfect security. What is the natural comment on this Î Why, that Mr. Fleeming Jenkin is a scientific engineer....enable us to deal with another quite different thing 1 To answer tUs question we shall have to consider nn<re closely the nature of scientific thought.... | |
 | 1872 - 646 ページ
...not only in these but in all other instances which I have considered, is just this : Both of theui make use of experience to direct human action ; but...dot on a piece of paper, and then hold a piece of Ice1 "On Braced Arches and Suspension Bridges." Edinburgh: Neill 1870. what is the additional clause... | |
 | 1872 - 554 ページ
...he has met with before, scientific thought enables him to deal with different circumstances that ho has never met with before. But how can experience...dot on a piece of paper, and then hold a piece of Icei "On Braced Arches and Suspension Bridges." Edinburgh: Neill 1870. 500 501 land spar over it, you... | |
 | 1873 - 914 ページ
...difference between scientific and merely technical thought, as follows : Both of them make use of experiment to direct human action ; but, while technical thought...different circumstances that he has never met with before. For instance, it is known that, if a single dot be made on a sheet of paper, and then be viewed through... | |
 | 1903 - 692 ページ
...address to the British Association in 1872, defined scientific thought as that which " enables a man to deal with different circumstances that he has never met with before ;" so that, following this brilliant thinker, we may say that the teacher who relies upon didactic... | |
 | Wilhelm Ahrens - 1904 - 678 ページ
...technical thought or skill enables a man to deal with the same circumstances that he has met with i v before, scientific thought enables him to deal with...different circumstances that he has never met with before. WK CLIFFORD. „On the aims and instruments of scientific thought", Lecture delivered before the British... | |
 | John Grier Hibben - 1905 - 470 ページ
...Instruments of Scientific Thought, that "the difference between scientific and merely technical thought is just this: Both of them make use of experience...circumstances that he has never met with before." * He cites two illustrations, which are admirable examples of scientific prediction. The first relates... | |
 | John Dewey - 1910 - 240 ページ
...scientific thought right here. " Skill enables a man to deal with the same circumstances that he has met before, scientific thought enables him to deal with different circumstances that he has never met before." And he goes so far as to define scientific thinking as " the application of old experience... | |
 | John Grier Hibben - 1923 - 466 ページ
...Instruments of Scientific Thought, that " the difference between scientific and merely technical thought is just this : Both of them make use of experience...different circumstances that he has never met with before."1 He cites two illustrations, which are admirable examples of scientific prediction. The first... | |
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Now, it seems to me that the difference between scientific and merely technical thought, not only in these, but in all other instances which I have considered, is just this : Both of them make use of experience to direct human action ; but while technical... 
