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As is shown by the passage from his Thermodynamics which he re-quotes, Prof. Tait holds that “Natural philosophy is an experimental, and not an intuitive science. No à priori reasoning can conduct us demonstratively to a single physical truth.”
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SPENCER, H. Prof. Tait and Mr. Spencer. Nature 9, 420–421 (1874). https://doi.org/10.1038/009420b0
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