 | Noël Antoine Pluche - 1763 - 378 pàgines
...of God by the following Argument, which is as mort and fatisfactory as that whereby we demonftrate the Equality of the three Angles of a Triangle to two right ones. There is fome Being which exifts from all Eternity, or the Beings we now fee muft have proceeded... | |
 | Alexander Fraser Tytler (lord Woodhouselee.) - 1807 - 464 pàgines
...effectually excluding all possibility of being so much us conceived to be not necessary. He that conceives the equality of the three angles of a. triangle to two right ones, not to be necessary, does not in truth conceive any such thing, but only carelessly affirms a... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1814 - 582 pàgines
...without breadth, "an object of conception *." In like manner, while I am studying Euclid's demonstration of the equality of the three angles •of a triangle to two right angles, I find no difficulty in following his train of reasoning, although it has no reference whatever -to-... | |
 | Levi Hedge - 1816 - 220 pàgines
...our assent to that, on which there appears the greatest weight of evidence. Thus, having demonstrated the equality of the three angles of a triangle to two right ones, there is no need of inquiring what may be urged against the demonstration. But the case is different... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1818 - 596 pàgines
...that Mr. Ferguson would have deemed it just as surprising, that any one should regard Euclid's proof of the equality of the three angles of a triangle to two right angles as preferable to his proof of direct meaturement. The method is objectionable on both occasions, and... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1818 - 346 pàgines
...it bears to my organ; or do I mean to assert a truth which is as independent of my constitution, as the equality of the three angles of a triangle to two right angles ? Scepticism may be indulged in both cases, about mathematical and about moral truth : but in neither... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1821 - 348 pàgines
...like manner, * Vol. I. pp. 157, 158, 3d edit. VOL. и. 9 while I am studying Euclid's demoastration of the equality of the three angles of a triangle to two right angles, I find no difficulty in following his train of reason, although it has no reference whatever to the... | |
 | Daniel Dewar - 1826 - 692 pàgines
...in other words, are they included in necessary truth, which is as independent of my constitution, as the equality of the three angles of a triangle to two right angles ? This question is answered in the negative by many sceptical writers, who allege that the distinctions... | |
 | Daniel Dewar - 1826 - 620 pàgines
...in other words, are they included in necessary truth, which is as independent of my constitution, as the equality of the three angles of a triangle to two right angles ? This question is answered in the negative by many sceptical writers, who allege that the distinctions... | |
 | George Payne - 1828 - 574 pàgines
...it bears to my organ ; or do I mean to assert a truth, which is as independent of my constitution as the equality of the three angles of a triangle to two right angles ?"* The theory of Dr. Adam Smith is considerably different from that of Hutcheson. If, on contemplating... | |
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