 | Benedictus de Spinoza - 1901 - 478 pàgines
...definition of which is of little moment. Such is a circle. If a circle be defined as a figure, such that all straight lines drawn from the center to the circumference are equal, every one can see that such a definition does not in the least explain the essence of a circle, but... | |
 | Benedictus de Spinoza - 1901 - 478 pàgines
...definition of which is of little moment. Such is a circle. If a circle be defined as a figure, such that all straight lines drawn from the center to the circumference are equal, every one can see that such a definition does not in the least explain the essence of a circle, but... | |
 | S. Paul Kashap - 1987 - 218 pàgines
...this point by means of an illustration (DIE 95). Suppose that a circle is defined as a figure, such that all straight lines drawn from the center to the circumference are equal. Now this definition clearly does not explain how a figure of a circle is made or produced; it does... | |
 | Paolo Mancosu - 1999 - 290 pàgines
...De Intellectus Emendatione (1661) Spinoza criticizes the definition of the circle as "a figure, such that all straight lines drawn from the center to the circumference are equal" on account of the fact that it does not give the cause or essence of the circle. Thus he espouses the... | |
 | Benedict de Spinoza - 2006 - 465 pàgines
...definition of which is of little moment. Such is a circle. If a circle be defined as a figure, such that all straight lines drawn from the center to the circumference are equal, every one can see that such a definition does not in the least explain the essence of a circle, but... | |
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If a circle be defined as a figure, such that all straight lines drawn from the center to the circumference are equal, every one can see that such a definition does not in the least explain the essence of a circle, but solely one of its properties. Though,... 