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... axiom , as the sticks of the fagot , one by one , you may quarrel with them , and bend them , and break them at pleasure : whence , as it was said of Seneca , that he " weakened the weight of things by trivial expression , " we may ...
... axiom , as the sticks of the fagot , one by one , you may quarrel with them , and bend them , and break them at pleasure : whence , as it was said of Seneca , that he " weakened the weight of things by trivial expression , " we may ...
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... , but- I. to correct the depravity of axioms and opinions , founded upon common and familiar examples ; and 2. to show the wonders of nature , which give the shortest passage to the wonders ADVANCEMENT OF LEARNING 47.
... , but- I. to correct the depravity of axioms and opinions , founded upon common and familiar examples ; and 2. to show the wonders of nature , which give the shortest passage to the wonders ADVANCEMENT OF LEARNING 47.
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... axioms , than has hitherto appeared . For as a man's temper is never well known until he is crossed ; in like manner the turns and changes of nature cannot appear so fully , when she is left at her liberty , as in the trials and ...
... axioms , than has hitherto appeared . For as a man's temper is never well known until he is crossed ; in like manner the turns and changes of nature cannot appear so fully , when she is left at her liberty , as in the trials and ...
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... Axioms of this kind are numerous ; for example , if equals be added to unequals , the wholes will be unequal . This ... axiom in mathematics , and , at the same time , so serviceable in logic as to be the foundation of syllogism.a Nature ...
... Axioms of this kind are numerous ; for example , if equals be added to unequals , the wholes will be unequal . This ... axiom in mathematics , and , at the same time , so serviceable in logic as to be the foundation of syllogism.a Nature ...
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... axioms an infinite number might be collected ; and thus the celebrated Persian magic was , in effect , no more than a notation of the correspondence in the structure and fabric of things natural and civil . Nor let any one understand ...
... axioms an infinite number might be collected ; and thus the celebrated Persian magic was , in effect , no more than a notation of the correspondence in the structure and fabric of things natural and civil . Nor let any one understand ...
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