id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 39713 Poincaré, Henri The Foundations of Science: Science and Hypothesis, The Value of Science, Science and Method .txt text/plain 199477 9712 65 Why, then, does science actually need general theories, despite the fact confirm by definite experience the objective validity of the principles mean of that space which is the object of geometry and which I shall Finally, I shall suppose that a body transported from one point to Like Newton's laws, and, for an analogous reason, the principle of the Experiment gives us only a certain number of isolated points. shall only have to let the law of great numbers act. effect of great numbers, the mean phenomena, alone observable, obey the if, placing myself at the objective point of view, I observe a certain space we can in fact define in magnitude and direction a certain force relative position of this object with regard to our body has changed. know the points of space, or more generally the final situation of our Knowing force, it is easy to define mass; this time the definition ./cache/39713.txt ./txt/39713.txt