| Robert Boyle - 1738 - 964 頁
...efhiblifhed among things corporeal, and, now and then, to call them the laws of nature. But, in ftrietnefs, to fay, that the nature of this or that body, is but...the legiflator is ; have any intention to accomplifh iti or aft with regard thereto. Now 'tis intelligible, that God Ihould, at the beginning, imprefs determinate... | |
| Alan Holland - 1985 - 364 頁
...properly, a law being but a notional rule of acting according to the declared will of a superior, it is plain that nothing but an intellectual being can be...properly capable of receiving and acting by a law. (W V, p. 170; 5, p. 181) In this passage Boyle is denying only that laws are the only real causal agents... | |
| Robert Boyle - 1991 - 292 頁
...properly, a law being but a notional rule of acting according to the declared will of a superior, it is plain that nothing but an intellectual being can be...receiving and acting by a law. For if it does not understand, it cannot know what the will of the legislator is; nor can it have any intention to accomplish... | |
| Robert Merrihew Adams - 1998 - 446 頁
...properly, a law being but a notional rule of acting according to the declared will of a superior, it is plain, that nothing but an intellectual Being can...properly capable of receiving and acting by a law." 31 Boyle's observation suggests a question that may confront those who would ground in the natures... | |
| Robert Merrihew Adams - 1994 - 446 頁
...properly, a law being but a notional rule of acting according to the declared will of a superior, it is plain, that nothing but an intellectual Being can be properly capable of receiving and acting by a law."31 Boyle's observation suggests a question that may confront those who would ground in the natures... | |
| R. S. Woolhouse - 1994 - 536 頁
...of physical law was tainted with anthropomorphism. 'Nothing but an intellectual Being,' he observed, 'can be properly capable of receiving and acting by a law. For if it does not understand it cannot know what the will of the legislator is; nor can it have any intention to accomplish... | |
| Rose-Mary Sargent - 1995 - 374 頁
...properly, a law being but a notional rule of acting according to the declared will of a superior, it is plain, that nothing but an intellectual Being can be properly capable of receiving and acting by a law.1'3 Boyle was making two separate points about natural laws in this passage. The one in the middle... | |
| A. C. Crombie - 1990 - 534 頁
...properly, a law being but a notional rule of acting according to the declared will of a superior, it is plain, that nothing but an intellectual being can...properly capable of receiving and acting by a law». God as «the supreme and absolute Lord, [...] when he made the world, and established the laws of motion,... | |
| Ezio Vailati - 1997 - 263 頁
...for, ... a law being but a notional rule of acting according to the declared will of a superior, it is plain that nothing but an intellectual Being can be...properly capable of receiving and acting by a law. For it does not understand, it cannot know what the will of the legislator is; nor can it act with regard... | |
| Christoph Herbert Lüthy, John Emery Murdoch, William Royall Newman - 2001 - 626 頁
...argues, "a law being but a notional rule of action according to the declared will of a superior, it is plain that nothing but an intellectual being can be properly capable of receiving and acting by a law."70 Boyle was not denying that bodies behaved as if they followed a law; he did not even deny that... | |
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