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When a general usage has been judicially ascertained and established, it becomes a part of the law merchant, which Courts of justice are bound to know and recognise.
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Since the fabric of the universe is most perfect and the work of a most wise Creator, nothing at all takes place in the universe in which some rule of maximum or minimum does not appear ... there is absolutely no doubt that every affect in the universe can be explained satisfactorily from final causes, by the aid of the method of maxima and minima, as it can be from the effective causes themselves ... Of course, when the effective causes are too obscure, but the final causes are readily ascertained, the problem is commonly solved by the indirect method...
leonhard euler— As quoted in The Anthropic Cosmological Principle (1986) by John D. Barrow and Frank J. Tipler, p. 150
Wit and valor are qualities that are more easily ascertained then virtue, or the love of wisdom.
Edward Gibbon— Vol. 1, Chap. 1.
There is no such thing as truth. The only thing that is actually there is your "logically" ascertained premise, which you call "truth".
u. g. krishnamurti— Ch. 1: The Certainty That Blasts Everything
Whence it is evident that the remedy must be adapted to the particular cause of the mischief; consequently, the cause must be ascertained, before the remedy is devised.
jean-baptiste say— Book II, On Distribution, Chapter VII, p. 336
Because of their very nature, science and logical thinking can never decide what is possible or impossible. Their only function is to explain what has been ascertained by experience and observation.
rudolf steiner— Cosmic Memory, Prehistory of Earth and Man.
Since the fabric of the universe is most perfect and the work of a most wise Creator, nothing at all takes place in the universe in which some rule of maximum or minimum does not appear ...there is absolutely no doubt that every affect in the universe can be explained satisfactorily from final causes, by the aid of the method of maxima and minima, as it can be from the effective causes themselves ... Of course, when the effective causes are too obscure, but the final causes are readily ascertained, the problem is commonly solved by the indirect method...
leonhard euler— Leonhard Euler, Methodus Inveniendi Lineas Curvas (1744), Tr. W.A. Oldfather, C.A. Ellis & D.M. Brown
The style of living is ascertained to have a powerful effect in modifying the human figure in the course of generations, and this even in its osseous structure.
— p.280 (Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation (1844))
This skeptical method consists very much in vicious circles. You cannot know whether a fact be a fact till you have ascertained the laws of nature in the case, and you cannot know the laws of nature till you have ascertained facts.
— p.9 (Testimony: its Posture in the Scientific World (1859))
The general rule of law is, that the noblest of human productions knowledge, truths ascertained, conceptions and ideas become, after voluntary communication to others, free as the air to common use.
— Louis Brandeis, (International News Service v. Associated Press, 1918).
