Lectures on the Principles of Demonstrative MathematicsA. and C. Black, 1843 - 147 sider |
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Side iv
... adopted after much thought and mature consideration . If in If in any instance they are erroneous , I am confident that those who are best able to set me right will be most ready to pardon the error . In discussing the principles of ...
... adopted after much thought and mature consideration . If in If in any instance they are erroneous , I am confident that those who are best able to set me right will be most ready to pardon the error . In discussing the principles of ...
Side 17
... adoption of the completest and best line of argument , Euclid's Elements stands pre - eminently at the head of all human productions . In no science , in no department of knowledge , has any thing appeared like this work : for upwards ...
... adoption of the completest and best line of argument , Euclid's Elements stands pre - eminently at the head of all human productions . In no science , in no department of knowledge , has any thing appeared like this work : for upwards ...
Side 41
... adopt . Nor is the origin of the diversity hard to be traced . Euclid was a disciple of the school of in- tuitive perceptions . Truths were , with him , the product of cogitation alone , brought out and manifested by an appeal to ...
... adopt . Nor is the origin of the diversity hard to be traced . Euclid was a disciple of the school of in- tuitive perceptions . Truths were , with him , the product of cogitation alone , brought out and manifested by an appeal to ...
Side 42
... adopt as an equivalent is what is sometimes called " the principle of sufficient reason . " A thing is true in this way because there is no reason for believing it otherwise , or , if you please , because there is ample reason for ...
... adopt as an equivalent is what is sometimes called " the principle of sufficient reason . " A thing is true in this way because there is no reason for believing it otherwise , or , if you please , because there is ample reason for ...
Side 43
... adopting his interpretation of it , ) common and proper . Eu- General or Universal Axioms are simply necessary truths . Such as , when a thing is , it cannot at the same time not be . Or when , of all possible affections of a thing ...
... adopting his interpretation of it , ) common and proper . Eu- General or Universal Axioms are simply necessary truths . Such as , when a thing is , it cannot at the same time not be . Or when , of all possible affections of a thing ...
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Side 64 - When a straight line standing on another straight line makes the adjacent angles equal to one another, each of the angles is called a right angle; and the straight line which stands on the other is called a perpendicular to it.
Side 38 - A diameter of a circle is a straight line drawn through the centre, and terminated both ways by the circumference.
Side 52 - Any two sides of a triangle are together greater than the third side.
Side 96 - ... of the second and fourth ; if the multiple of the first be less than that of the second, the multiple of the third is also less than that of the fourth: or, if the multiple of the first be equal to that of the second, the multiple of the third is also equal to that of the fourth...
Side 122 - Whatever form is algebraically equivalent to another when expressed in general symbols, must continue to be equivalent whatever those symbols denote.
Side 17 - It is certain that from its completeness, uniformity and faultlessness, from its arrangement and progressive character, and from the universal adoption of the completest and best line of argument, Euclid's " Elements " stand preeminently at the head of all human productions.
Side 38 - Of four-sided figures, a square is that which has all its sides equal, and all its angles right angles.
Side 67 - Parallel straight lines are such as are in the same plane, and which being produced ever so far both ways, do not meet.
Side 88 - But when four magnitudes are proportionals, if the first be greater than the third, the second is greater than the fourth ; and if equal, equal; if less, less; (v.
Side 25 - That all our cognition," he says, " begins with experience, there is not any doubt ; for how otherwise should the faculty of cognition be awakened into exercise, if this did not occur through objects which affect our senses...