So there is, as we might put it, a core of invariability surrounded by a variable periphery. From Wordnik.com. [Moral Particularism] Reference
Is this law of the invariability of light velocity in relation to any desired inertial system valid?. From Wordnik.com. [Out Of My Later Years]
Bury has drawn attention to the importance of the notion of the invariability of the laws of nature for the idea of progress. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
The Cartesian philosophy posited two fundamental axioms—the supremacy of reason and the invariability of the laws of nature. From Wordnik.com. [Sands of Empire] Reference
From the invariability of the axis of rotation, we must conclude that whatever form is the true form, it is one of equilibrium. From Wordnik.com. [Outlines of a Mechanical Theory of Storms Containing the True Law of Lunar Influence] Reference
This situation is far from ideal, but the alternative … would invariability produce earlier estimates of past temperature that, to some extent, too warm. From Wordnik.com. [Bristlecones and Sagebrush « Climate Audit] Reference
So it is intermediatism to accept that, though gravitation may approximate higher to invariability than do the winds, for instance, it must be somewhere between the. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of the Damned] Reference
The collodion-spinning is a process still very defective in this respect, and the defect is no doubt referable to the difficulty of securing absolute physical invariability of the collodion. From Wordnik.com. [Researches on Cellulose 1895-1900] Reference
The invariability of the belief is with him the real guarantee. From Wordnik.com. [A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive] Reference
By the growth of a practical feeling of the invariability of natural laws. From Wordnik.com. [Auguste Comte and Positivism] Reference
So we have a fair amount of invariability that we can ratchet down pretty quickly. From Wordnik.com. [SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page] Reference
One fact well ascertained as regards both species is the invariability of the type. From Wordnik.com. [A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition] Reference
Any windows exploit in any app almost invariability gives access to the whole machine. From Wordnik.com. [Resources | ZDNet] Reference
He makes his fundamental premise Descartes's principle of the invariability of nature's laws. From Wordnik.com. [Quizzing the Anonymous] Reference
The invariability of composition by weight of chemical compounds is a fundamental law of chemistry. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne] Reference
The Eastern Eucharistic offices of whatever rite are marked by the invariability of the priest's part. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI] Reference
And science does not rest for us on sure foundations unless the invariability of the laws of nature is admitted. From Wordnik.com. [The Idea of Progress An inguiry into its origin and growth] Reference
The infant of literature "wails" and wails feebly, with the invariability of a thing unproved and taken for granted. From Wordnik.com. [The Children] Reference
The invariability of nature, as he conceived it, was true of the emotions and the will, as well as of the intellect. From Wordnik.com. [The Idea of Progress An inguiry into its origin and growth] Reference
This illustrates another fundamental law -- the invariability of composition by gaseous volume of chemical compounds. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne] Reference
The memoir in which Laplace communicated his results on the invariability of the mean motions or mean distances, is dated. From Wordnik.com. [Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men] Reference
This invariability of form presupposes also a great invariability in the distribution of relations of density in the interior of the globe. From Wordnik.com. [COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1] Reference
Schopenhauer believes in the unchangeableness of innate tendencies in the individual, and in the invariability of the primitive disposition. From Wordnik.com. [Amiel's Journal] Reference
The want of complete data leaves the invariability of this distinction in question, but with all species that I have examined, the flowers of. From Wordnik.com. [The Genus Pinus] Reference
We may assume, in light of this invariability, the human mind is as good today, as rich in reason and imagination, as ever it was in the past. From Wordnik.com. [Quizzing the Anonymous] Reference
Divinity a Supreme Being manifested in the operation of invariable laws -- whose very invariability is the guarantee of beneficence and security. From Wordnik.com. [A Reply to Dr. Lightfoot's Essays] Reference
There is in the content of tradition an invariability which could not exist if it were a dual composite, as is the constitution of the germ-plasm. From Wordnik.com. [Introduction to the Science of Sociology] Reference
This is simply to affirm an identical proposition — that proposition being the invariability of the intellectual conception expressed by a triangle. From Wordnik.com. [Theism: The Witness of Reason and Nature to an All-Wise and Beneficent Creator.] Reference
For the fact is precisely what we should expect if this theory is true, while upon no other theory can its universality and invariability be rendered intelligible. From Wordnik.com. [Darwin, and After Darwin (Vol. 1 and 3, of 3) An Exposition of the Darwinian Theory and a Discussion of Post-Darwinian Questions] Reference
The two axioms which he launched upon the world -- the supremacy of reason, and the invariability of natural laws -- struck directly at the foundations of orthodoxy. From Wordnik.com. [The Idea of Progress An inguiry into its origin and growth] Reference
On the other hand, the invariability in the quantity of heat in all these processes could at that time be explained in no other manner than that heat is a substance. From Wordnik.com. [On the Conservation of Force] Reference
The word has therefore an excellent and orthodox use, defining as it does both the proper character of the hypostases, and setting forth the invariability of the nature. From Wordnik.com. [NPNF2-08. Basil: Letters and Select Works] Reference
Every element has its own atomic weight, and the invariability of the chemical composition by weight is explained by the invariability of the atomic weights of the elements. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne] Reference
Thus the allegation of miracles is discredited, both positively by the invariability of the order of nature, and negatively by the fallibility of human observation and testimony. From Wordnik.com. [A Reply to Dr. Lightfoot's Essays] Reference
His steady watch over them showed the invariability of their position with regard to the terminator; and this is as much as to say that the regions of day and night do not shift on the surface of the planet. From Wordnik.com. [A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition] Reference
Of the invariability of Primary Moral Judgments. From Wordnik.com. [Moral Philosophy] Reference
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