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. The Elements of Euclid - Página 246por Euclid - 1838 - 416 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Francis Bacon - 1850 - 620 páginas
...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. Lastly:... | |
| William Whewell - 1850 - 416 páginas
...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... | |
| William Whewell - 1850 - 432 páginas
...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 páginas
...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.... | |
| H. H. Munro - 1850 - 272 páginas
...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.... | |
| Ephraim George Squier - 1851 - 294 páginas
...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 páginas
...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... | |
| John Campbell - 1851 - 566 páginas
...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... | |
| Euclides - 1852 - 152 páginas
...compasses. Having these, the reader will be able to draw any of the figures in this book.] AXIOMS. I. THINGS which are equal to the same are equal to one another. II. If equals be added to equals, the wholes are equal. III. If equals be taken from equals, the remainders... | |
| 1852 - 588 páginas
..."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... | |
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