O grego poieo, de que provem poiesis, como o latino
fingo, significa
In Brown's account of trains of thought, he said that, whilst he had detailed the "antecedents and consequents which succeed[ed] each other in regular series" and, while an analogous set of mental forces were obviously behind those regularities, he would adopt Newton's hypothesis non
fingo, and refuse to speculate on the forces' structures (1851, [section].IX, p.
4 "Mi
fingo una natura che non sono" con la citazione piu o meno esplicita dell'Infinito (Leopardi, 2009: 267 "io nel pensier mi
fingo...
Francisco
Fingo, of the civil right organization "Associacao Construindo Comunidades" (building communities), points his finger at the Angolan government, saying the administration promised to deliver rice and cooking oil to the region in coming months, but nothing had happened.
Erasure ends with Isaac Newton's famous phrase "hypotheses non
fingo" (265) meaning 'I feign no hypotheses.' This was the answer the scientist had given when asked about what constitutes space.
Nor did Galileo or Newton, for that matter; a fact ironically brought out by Newton's famous hypotheses non
fingo. (Newton actually contrived most fruitful fictions, though he failed to realize that they were fictions.) The contemporary mathematical physicist knows that he can probe into the world of nature only by means of mental constructions suggested in part by experience, in part by mathematics.