 | Oliver Lorenzo Barbour, New York (State). Supreme Court - 1849 - 706 sider
...uninfluenced by the demonstration of the simplest problem in Euclid, and to which the axiom, " that things which are equal to the same are equal to one another," would be too abstruse for comprehension. The judgment and the note were familiar. and their relation... | |
 | William Whewell - 1850 - 432 sider
...It may be said, indeed, that every step in analysis is a syllogism, in which the major is the Axiom, Things which are equal to the same are equal to one another; and the minor is a proposition that two certain forms of symbols have been proved to be equal to the... | |
 | Henry Aldrich - 1850 - 406 sider
...to be reared, and the final appeal in argument. They bear some analogy to the mathematical axioms, Things which are equal to the same are equal to one another; and, Things of which one is equal and the other not equal to the same, are not equal to one another.... | |
 | William Whewell - 1850 - 416 sider
...It may be said, indeed, that every step in analysis is a syllogism, in which the major is the Axiom, Things which are equal to the same are equal to one another; and the minor is a proposition that two certain forms of symbols have been proved to be equal to the... | |
 | H. H. Munro - 1850 - 272 sider
...the basis on which the syllogism is founded. They bear some analogy to the mathematical axioms : — Things which are equal to the same are equal to one another, and things of which one is equal and the other not equal to the same, are not equal to one another.... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1850 - 620 sider
...similar to that of music termed the declining of a cadence. 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.... | |
 | John Campbell - 1851 - 566 sider
...Asiatics, the utter destruction of all biblical chronology by this process would be another. " Now, ' things which are equal to the same are equal to one another.' If they are anterior to Shoopho's pyramid in Egypt, then Meroe must have been occupied in the earliest... | |
 | 582 sider
...magnitudes are those which may bo so applied to one another as to coincide" the three others. Magnitudes whic'h are equal to the same are equal to one another. If equals arc added 'to equals, the sums are equal. If equals are taken from equals, the remainders are equal,... | |
 | Ephraim George Squier - 1851 - 294 sider
...authority, if not, possibly by the Egyptian documents yet deciphered) — 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... | |
 | Maria Georgina Shirreff Grey, Emily Anne Eliza Shirreff - 1851 - 496 sider
...other," it is evidently only another mode of expressing the axiom in geometry, referred to above, " Things which are equal to the same, are equal to one another." These are not peculiar principles of particular sciences, but formulae of the essential laws of thought... | |
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