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" I have mentioned mathematics as a way to settle in the mind a habit of reasoning closely and in train; not that I think it necessary that all men should be deep mathematicians, but that, having got the way of reasoning, which that study necessarily brings... "
The Elements of Logick: In Four Books ... Design'd Particularly for Young ... - Page 224
by William Duncan - 1748 - 363 pages
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Posthumous Works

John Locke - Commonplace-books - 1706 - 352 pages
...but that having got the way of Reafoning, which that ftudy neceffarily brings the Mind to, they might be able to transfer it to other parts of Knowledge as they fhall have occafion. For in all forts of Reafoning, every fmgle Argument mould be managed as a Mathematical Demonftration, the Connection and...
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An Essay Upon Study: Wherein Directins are Given for the Due Conduct Thereof ...

John Clarke - Best books - 1731 - 380 pages
...bnt that having got the Way of Reafoning, which that Study necefTarily brings the Mind to,they might be able to transfer it to other Parts of Knowledge, as they fhall have Occafion ; for in all Sorts of Reafoning, every Single Argument mould be managed as a Mathematical Demonftration. The Connection...
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Sir Isaac Newton's Two Treatises: Of the Quadrature of Curves, and Analysis ...

Isaac Newton - Calculus - 1745 - 524 pages
...but that having got the way of reafoning, which that Study neceffarily brings the Mind to, they might be able to transfer it to other Parts of Knowledge, as they fhall have occafion. 1 think the Study of Mathematicks of infinite Ufe even to grown Men ; firft by experimentally convincing...
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Miscellanea Curiosa Mathematica: Or, The Literary Correspondence ..., Volume 1

Francis Holliday - Mathematics - 1749 - 360 pages
...but that having got the way of reafoning, which diat ftudy neceflarily brings the mind to, they might be able to transfer it to other parts of knowledge, as they mall have occafion : for in all forts of reafoning, every fingle argument mould be managed as a mathematical...
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The Preceptor: Containing a General Course of Education. Wherein ..., Volume 2

Robert Dodsley - Education - 1758 - 586 pages
...deep Mathematicians, but that, having got the Way of Reafoning which that Study neccSTarily btings the Mind to, they may be able to transfer it to other...as they fhall have Occafion. For in all forts " of Reafoning, every fingle Argument fhould be managed as ** a Mathematical Demonstration, the Connection...
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The preceptor: containing a general course of education [ed. by R. Dodsley].

Preceptor - 1758 - 590 pages
...deep Mathematicians, but that, having got the K Way of Reafoning which that Study neceffarily biings the " Mind to, they may be able to transfer it to other Parts of " Knowledge, as they (hall have Occafion. For in all forts " of Reafoning, every fingte Argument (hould be managed as "...
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A New Introduction to the Mathematicks: Being Essays on Vulgar and Decimal ...

Benjamin Donne - Algebra - 1758 - 428 pages
...be deep Mathematicians, but that, V having go* the Way of Reafoning, which that Study necefiarily " brings the Mind to, they may be able to transfer it to other U Parts qf Knowledge, as they iriall have Qccafion. For, in all forts «' of Reafoning, every fingle...
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An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Volume 2

John Locke - Knowledge, Theory of - 1796 - 554 pages
...that, having got the way of reafoning, which that ftudy necelfarily brings the mind to, they might be able to transfer it to other parts of knowledge, as they (hall have occafion. For, in all forts of reafoning, every fmgle argument fliould be managed as a mathematical...
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Encyclopędia Britannica: Or, A Dictionary of Arts ..., Volume 10, Part 1

Colin Macfarquhar, George Gleig - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1797 - 422 pages
...deep ma-rjrci*thematicians ; but that, having got the way of reafoning which that (ludy ueceflarily brings the mind to, they may be able to transfer it to other parts of knowledge, as they (hall have occafion. g IX. But although the ftudy of mathematics be of all л» aid rf others the moil...
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The conduct of the understanding

John Locke - 1801 - 168 pages
...that having got fee way of reasoning, .winch that study necessarily brings the mind to, they might be able to transfer . it to other parts of knowledge as they shall have occasion. For in all sorts of reasoning, every single argument should be managed as a mathemar...
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