 | George Berkeley - 1820 - 478 pages
...exponents and proportions is to be ascribed to fluxions : which must therefore be previously understood. And what are these fluxions ? The velocities of evanescent...we not call them the .ghosts of departed quantities ? XXXVI. Men too often impose on themselves and others, as if they conceived and understood things... | |
 | George Berkeley - 1820 - 474 pages
...exponents and proportions is to be ascribed to fluxions : which must therefore be previously understood. And what are these fluxions ? The velocities of evanescent...we not call them the ghosts of departed quantities ? XXXVI. Men too often impose on themselves and others, as if they conceived and understood things... | |
 | George Berkeley - Philosophy, Modern - 1843 - 470 pages
...exponents and proportions is to be ascribed to fluxions : which must therefore be previously understood. And what are these fluxions ? The velocities of evanescent...we not call them the ghosts of departed quantities ? XXXVI. Men too often impose on themselves-and others, as if they conceived and understood things... | |
 | Geology - 1856 - 420 pages
...or pretended objector. Bishop Berkeley avails himself of it in his Analyst, .when he says (§ 85), " And what are these same evanescent increments ( They...we not call them the ghosts of departed quantities ?" Newton is not altogether guiltless of having done his part towards the creation of this confusion... | |
 | Science - 1856 - 948 pages
...real or pretended objector. Bishop Berkeley avails himself of it in his Analyst, when he says (§ 85), "And what are these same evanescent increments ? They...we not call them the ghosts of departed quantities ?" Newton is not altogether guiltless of having done his part towards the creation of this confusion... | |
 | George Berkeley - 1871 - 586 pages
...exponents and proportions is to be ascribed to fluxions: which must therefore be previously understood. And what are these fluxions? The velocities of evanescent...we not call them the ghosts of departed quantities? 36. Men too often impose on themselves and others as if they conceived and understood things expressed... | |
 | George Berkeley - Idealism - 1898 - 556 pages
...exponents and proportions is to be ascribed to fluxions : which must therefore be previously understood. And what are these fluxions ? The velocities of evanescent...we not call them the ghosts of departed quantities ? 36. Men too often impose on themselves and others as if they conceived and understood things expressed... | |
 | George Berkeley - Idealism - 1898 - 606 pages
...exponents and proportions is to be ascribed to fluxions : which must therefore be previously understood. And what are these fluxions ? The velocities of evanescent...we not call them the ghosts of departed quantities ? 36. Men too often impose on themselves and others as if they conceived and understood things expressed... | |
 | George Berkeley - 1898 - 580 pages
...exponents and proportions is to be ascribed to fluxions : which must therefore be previously understood. And what are these fluxions ? The velocities of evanescent...we not call them the ghosts of departed quantities ? 36. Men too often impose on themselves and others as if they conceived and understood things expressed... | |
 | Robert Édouard Moritz - Mathematics - 1914 - 434 pages
...not, methinks, be squeamish about any point in Divinity. — BERKELEY, G. The Analyst, sect. 7. 1943. And what are these fluxions? The velocities of evanescent...infinitely small, nor yet nothing. May we not call them ghosts of departed quantities? — BERKELEY, G. The Analyst, sect. 35. 1944. It is said that the minutest... | |
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And what are these fluxions? The velocities of evanescent increments. And what are these same evanescent increments? They are neither finite quantities, nor quantities infinitely small, nor yet nothing. May we not call them the ghosts of departed quantities? 
