 | 1858 - 422 sider
...have a gayer or gladder aspect. Mr. Smith's only justification here is a mathematical one : that as things which are equal to the same are equal to one another, and both blossoms and tears have been likened to a shower of rain, therefore blossoms may always be... | |
 | 1852 - 588 sider
..."Yes." " And the three baskets three days too?" "Yes." Well, thought I, if it be a true axiom that things which are equal to the same are equal to one another, then a grape vine and a basket are identical ! So, finding the rabbinical logic of this poor deluded... | |
 | Euclides - 1853 - 176 sider
...but it has been proved that ca is equal to ab; therefore ca, cb, are each of them equal to ab ; but things which are equal to the same are equal to one another (1 ax.); therefore ca is equal to cb; wherefore ca, ab, bc are equal to one another; and the triangle... | |
 | Royal Military Academy, Woolwich - 1853 - 400 sider
...3. And that a circle may be described from any centre, at any distance from that centre. AXIOMS. 1. Things which are equal to the same are equal to one another. 2. If equals be added to equals, the wholes are equal. 3. If equals be taken from equals, the remainders... | |
 | Euclides - 1853 - 146 sider
...But it has been proved that CA is equal to AB; therefore CA, CB, are each of them equal to AB; but things which are equal to the same are equal to one another (Ax. 1.) ; therefore 3. CA is equal to CB. Wherefore CA, AB, BC, are equal to one another ; and therefore... | |
 | sir George Ramsay (9th bart.) - 1853 - 282 sider
...intervention of any general axiom, that the side AB is equal to the side A C. The general axiom, that things which are equal to the same are equal to one another, cannot make the conclusion one whit more evident than it was before. We see at once from the particular... | |
 | J. Stevenson Bushnan - 1854 - 268 sider
...truths — also such propositions as that, when equals are taken from equals, equals remain ; that things which are equal to the same are equal to one another ; that things which are doubles or halves of the same, are equal to one another; that twice four are... | |
 | William Somerville Orr - 1854 - 422 sider
...truths — also such propositions as that, when equals are taken from equals, equals remain ; that things which are equal to the same are equal to one another ; that things which are doubles or halves of the same, are equal to one another ; that twice four arc... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1855 - 386 sider
...of Music called " sliding from the close or cadence." In like manner, the Mathematical Postulate, " those things which are equal to the same, are equal to one another," is Conformable to the construction of the Syllogism in Logic; for it unites those Terms which agree in... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1855 - 388 sider
...of Music called "sliding from the close or cadence." In like manner, the Mathematical Postulate, " those things which are equal to the same, are equal to one another," is Conformable to the construction of the Syllogism in Logic; for it unites those Terms which agree in... | |
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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. 
