The Philosophy of Human Knowledge: Or a Treatise on Language. A Course of Lectures, Delivered at the Utica LyceumG. & C. Carvill, 1828 - 197 pàgines |
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... miles in one direction , and fifteen miles in another ; and in this giddy rotation our heads travel faster than our bodies ; that a portion of mankind walk with their feet diametrically opposite to ours ; that the world is a ball , and ...
... miles in one direction , and fifteen miles in another ; and in this giddy rotation our heads travel faster than our bodies ; that a portion of mankind walk with their feet diametrically opposite to ours ; that the world is a ball , and ...
Pàgina 10
... miles perpendicular →→→ in the moon ; of a country six thousand miles in circum- ference , devoid of atmosphere and water , -in the moon ; of awful chasms as broad as oceans and as deep , -also in the moon . We read , likewise , of ...
... miles perpendicular →→→ in the moon ; of a country six thousand miles in circum- ference , devoid of atmosphere and water , -in the moon ; of awful chasms as broad as oceans and as deep , -also in the moon . We read , likewise , of ...
Pàgina 39
... mile be- fore Achilles , and that Achilles runs a hundred times faster than the tortoise , yet he will never overtake it . Because , says Zeno , when Achilles has run the mile the tortoise will have moved forward the hundreth part of a mile ...
... mile be- fore Achilles , and that Achilles runs a hundred times faster than the tortoise , yet he will never overtake it . Because , says Zeno , when Achilles has run the mile the tortoise will have moved forward the hundreth part of a mile ...
Pàgina 40
... mile . " The ten thousandth part of a mile is between six and seven inches . It names a sight and a feel ; hence the process is still faultless , and the tortoise is not yet over- taken . " Whilst Achilles passes over this ten ...
... mile . " The ten thousandth part of a mile is between six and seven inches . It names a sight and a feel ; hence the process is still faultless , and the tortoise is not yet over- taken . " Whilst Achilles passes over this ten ...
Pàgina 41
... mile which sepa- rated Achilles from the tortoise . The words in both ca- ses are divested of meaning . But it may be said , can we not see or feel an object which is so small that we cannot see or feel the half of it ; and can we not ...
... mile which sepa- rated Achilles from the tortoise . The words in both ca- ses are divested of meaning . But it may be said , can we not see or feel an object which is so small that we cannot see or feel the half of it ; and can we not ...
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 42 - But another man, who never took the pains to observe the demonstration, hearing a mathematician, a man of credit, affirm the three angles of a triangle to be equal to two right ones, assents to it, ie receives it for true.
Pàgina 118 - For, if the triangle ABC be applied to DEF, so that the point A may be on D, and the straight line AB upon DE ; the point B shall coincide with the point E...
Pàgina 187 - Our senses inform us of the color, weight, and consistency of bread, but neither sense nor reason can ever inform us of those qualities which fit it for the nourishment and support of the human body.
Pàgina 118 - ... shall be greater than the base of the other. Let ABC, DEF be two triangles, which have the two sides AB, AC, equal to the two DE, DF, each to each, viz.
Pàgina 119 - DF : but the point B coincides with the point E ; wherefore the base BC shall coincide with the base EF^ because the point B coinciding with E, and C with F, if the base BC does not coincide with the base EF, two straight lines would inclose a space, which is impossible».
Pàgina 73 - To express, shortly, what appears to me to be the only intelligible meaning of the three most important words in physics, immediate invariable antecedence, is power, — the immediate invariable antecedent, in any sequence, is a cause. — the immediate invariable consequent is the correlative effect.
Pàgina 114 - One design prevails throughout the whole. And this uniformity leads the mind to acknowledge one author ; because the conception of different authors, without any distinction of attributes or operations, serves only to give perplexity to the imagination, without bestowing any satisfaction on the understanding.
Pàgina 181 - A WHITE BEAR! Very well. Have I ever seen one? Might I ever have seen one? Am I ever to see one? Ought I ever to have seen one? Or can I ever see one? Would I had seen a white bear! (for how can I imagine it?) If I should see a white bear, what should I say?