Yet, while as we have seen (section 3), Hume certainly saw it as part of the road to "true philosophy," he does not view Newton's achievement as a decisive advance in knowledge of nature but, instead, as decisive evidence for the claim that nature will remain unknowable in principle.
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With his use of infinite series, coordinates, and graphical interpretations of motion, Oresme was on the brink of a decisive advance beyond the discoveries of Archimedes.
AFRICAN UNION troops in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, claim to have made a decisive advance in the fight against the al-Qaeda-linked Shabab militia.
The draft paper also stressed that the project would "require an immediate and decisive advance in the process of economic, financial and political integration within the euro area".
While not in itself a decisive shift for a city that remained besieged, the swift advance, made with few rebel casualties, carried both signs of rebel optimism and hints of the weakness of at least one frontline loyalist unit.
A1 THE OPPOSITION -- The deputy defense minister of the Northern Alliance says that rebel troops have advanced to the outskirts of the strategic city of Mazar-i-Sharif, setting the stage for a decisive battle for control of northern Afghanistan.
This revolution was a decisive experience for Blanqui.
It is also a decisive moment for the region.
It is, potentially, a decisive moment for India.
