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CHAPTER XXXI. REFLECTIONS ON THE RESULTS AND LIMITS OF SCIENTIFIC METHOD.

1

Théorie Analytique des Probabilités, quoted by Babbage, Ninth Bridgewater Treatise, p. 173.

2

First Bridgewater Treatise (1834), pp. 16–24.

3

System of Logic, 5th edit. bk. III. chap. V. § 7; chap. XVI. § 3.

4

System of Logic, vol. i. p. 384.

5

Ninth Bridgewater Treatise, p. 140.

6

Ibid. pp. 34–43.

7

Professor Clifford, in his most interesting lecture on “The First and Last Catastrophe” (Fortnightly Review, April 1875, p. 480, reprint by the Sunday Lecture Society, p. 24), objects that I have erroneously substituted “known laws of nature” for “known laws of conduction of heat.” I quite admit the error, without admitting all the conclusions which Professor Clifford proceeds to draw; but I maintain the paragraph unchanged, in order that it may be discussed in the Preface.

8

Tait’s Thermodynamics, p. 38. Cambridge Mathematical Journal, vol. iii. p. 174.

9

Clerk Maxwell’s Theory of Heat, p. 245.

10

Maxwell’s Theory of Heat, p. 92.

11

Report of the British Association (1852), Report of Sections, p. 12.

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