 | Arthur Edward Waite - 1911 - 498 sider
...above all I have no part in those Wardens of the Gates who deny in their particular enthusiasm that things which are equal to the same are equal to one another, since these Wardens are blind. I have mentioned the anti-Masonic Congress which was once held at Trent,... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - 1914 - 344 sider
...straight and crooked would have no more meaning to him, than red and blue to the blind. The axiom, that things which are equal to the same are equal to one another, is only a particular case of the predication of similarity; if there were no impressions, it is obvious... | |
 | William Henry Leffingwell - 1926 - 890 sider
...mental characteristics will be alike, a logical deduction from the established scientific principle that things which are equal to the same are equal to one another. During the past 15 or 20 years large groups of psychologists in all modern countries have been exploring... | |
 | 1863 - 702 sider
...insisted on by Mr. Lewes and others — namely, that alcohol replaced a certain amount of food ; and " as things which are equal to the same are equal to one another," he inferred that if a glass of ale was equal to a slice of mutton in its satisfying effect, and that... | |
 | 1891 - 440 sider
...or merely a pars minoris resistentue ? If tubercular, then they are the same in nature as lupus (as things which are equal to the same are equal to one another). But tuberculin tends to cure lupus, and tends to make chilblains worse ; hence if chilblains are tubercular... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1845 - 610 sider
...discovery, that both languages admit of the same Erse interpretation, upon the geometrical principle that things which are equal to the same are equal to one another. This argument however depends for its validity on the accuracy of his remaining assumption, that the... | |
 | Hargrave Jennings - 1996 - 150 sider
...authority, if not possibly by the Egyptian documents yet undeciphered — which hypothesis is Euclidean. ' Things which are equal to the same are equal to one another. ' Now if the ' Mundane Egg ' be in the papyric rituals the equivalent to Sun, and that by other hieroglyphical... | |
 | Arthur Edward Waite - 2013 - 509 sider
...subsist ; but I have no part in those Wardens of the Gates who deny in their particular enthusiasm that things which are equal to the same are equal to one another, since those Wardens are blind. The Catholic scheme of Masonry in its root-understanding and in its... | |
 | 1854 - 390 sider
...being a little cracked of course she must be a little cracked, for according to the axiom of Euclid — things which are equal to the same are equal to one another. We have an elucidation of our own pun. A gentleman from Maine, wearing a pair of tight boots, said... | |
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Again ; the mathematical postulate, that " things which are equal to the same are equal to one another," is similar to the form of the syllogism in logic, which unites things agreeing in the middle term. 
