 | Benjamin Franklin Foster - Accounting - 1836 - 192 pages
...and creditors having been demonstrated as well from the nature of these relations, as from the axiom that the whole is equal to the sum of its parts ; and having been shown to exist essentially in property, in every state, whether of motion or of rest ;... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin Foster - Accounting - 1837 - 224 pages
...and creditors having been demonstrated, as well from the nature of these relations as from the axiom that the whole is equal to the sum of its parts ; and having been shown to exist essentially in property, in every state, whether of motion or of rest; we... | |
 | James McCosh - History - 1860 - 512 pages
...those with which we are acquainted on earth; but it is as certain in those other worlds as in this, that the whole is equal to the sum of its parts, and that ungodliness is a sin. SECT. V. ON THE NECESSITY ATTACHED TO OUR PRIMARY CONVICTIONS. We have seen... | |
 | Philip Crellin - 1871 - 196 pages
...Undoubtedly it embodies and illustrates two axioms which lie at the basis of mathematical science ; that ' the whole is equal to the sum of its parts,' and that ' if equals be added to or deducted from equals the remainders are equal.' To this it owes the... | |
 | Science - 1888 - 938 pages
...as men, when he submits them to them, as, for instance, that the whole is greater than a part, and that the whole is equal to the sum of its parts. And yet no child knows it until be has •een, lay a hundred times, that an apple disappears when it is... | |
 | Herman Harrell Horne - Educational psychology - 1906 - 464 pages
...For example, by inner perception I am aware both that I am now thinking of the mathematical axiom' that the whole is equal to the sum of its parts, and also that it means so and so. These brief remarks concerning the nature of sense- and inner perception... | |
 | Désiré Mercier - Philosophy - 1916 - 626 pages
...into actual being and potential being. 4. (a) The word ' is ' may signify merely truth : thus we say that ' the whole is equal to the sum of its parts ', and that ' the whole is not identical with any of its parts '. A predicate sometimes is identical with... | |
 | Trust companies - 1926 - 958 pages
...upon a defense of the body to which I for the moment chance to belong. It Is mathematically axiomatic that the whole is equal to the sum of its parts — and the spectacle presents itself at each biennial test of substantially all Senators honored with reelection.... | |
 | John Herman Randall (Jr.) - Civilization - 1926 - 672 pages
...the clear and distinct intuition of geometrical axioms. We know intuitively, with absolute certainty, that the whole is equal to the sum of its parts, and that a straight line is the shortest distance between two points: similarly it was hoped that such... | |
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In other words, if the fundamental rule that the whole is equal to the sum of its parts and that the deduction of any part decreases the whole is adhered to, the depreciation problem is solved. 
