 | David Phineas Adams, William Emerson, Samuel Cooper Thacher - 1808 - 708 pages
...confound our two articles. " In the Celtic" says he, " the article an signifies the and that." But as things, which are equal to the same, are equal to one another, it is easy to prove, since an means that, and //•.- means that, that an and the are in the English... | |
 | Royal Society (Great Britain) - Meteorology - 1809 - 738 pages
...conclude the same tiling, tart are quite contrary to your conclusion, and depend on that common axiom, that those things which are equal to the same are equal to each other; which however holds only in homogeneous quantities, as here in comparing a virtual action... | |
 | Charles Butler - 1814 - 568 pages
...ACE, BC is equal to BA, by the \5th definition; therefore CA,.CB are each of them equal to AB ; but things which are equal to the same are equal to one another, by the 1st' axiom; wherefore CA and CB are equal to one another, being each equal to AB ; consequently... | |
 | English literature - 1814 - 1026 pages
...contrary, they are such 35, considered separately, do not afford room for a single inference. — That things which are equal to the same, are equal to one another, and that the whole is greater than its part, considered in themselves, are mere barren truisms. The... | |
 | John Greig - 1816 - 224 pages
...because they divide the globe into unequal parts, called segments, as o C b and A ob B D. 2. Axioms.* 1. Things which are equal to the same, are equal to one another. * Axiom, implies a plain, self-evident troth or proposition, which is no sooner proposed but understood.... | |
 | Euclides - 1816 - 588 pages
...III. And that a circle may be described from any centre, at any distance from that centre. 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... | |
 | George Townsend - 1819 - 156 pages
...circumstance indeed so very surprising, that if I had time to prosecute the inquiry, I might prove, that as things which are equal to the same, are equal to one another, the Patriarchs are the Caesars, and the Caesars the sons of Jacob, because they are both synonymous... | |
 | John Playfair - 1819 - 354 pages
...But it has been proved that CA is equal to AB ; therefore CA, CB are each of them equal to AB ; now things which are equal to the same are equal to one another .I. Axiom) ; therefore CA is equal to CB ; wherefore CA, AB, B are equal to one another ; and the triangle... | |
 | Henry Aldrich - Logic - 1821 - 300 pages
...reared, and as the final appeal in argument. They benr some slight 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.... | |
 | Euclid - 1822 - 222 pages
...a circle may be described from any centre, /&, ff, at any distance from that centre. M o Axioms. 1. Things which are equal to the same are equal to one another. 2. If equals be added to equals, the wholes are equal. 3. If equals be taken from equals, the remainders... | |
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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. 
