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" But at last, when it is brought to the test of close reasoning, there is not even that thin decoction of it left. It is a presumption impossible in the domain of thought. It is precisely no other than the putting of that most unphilosophical proposition,... "
Elementary Treatise on Mechanics: For the Use of Colleges and Schools of Science - Page 14
by William Guy Peck - 1870 - 296 pages
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A Manual of Chemistry

Richard Dennis Hoblyn - Chemistry - 1841 - 314 pages
...occupies a certain space, to the exclusion of every other body from that space ; or, in other words, by which no two bodies can occupy the same space at the same time. A nail, driven into a board, does not penetrate the wood ; it merely separates and displaces...
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A practical introduction to English composition, by R. (and T ..., Part 2

Robert Armstrong (master of Madras coll.) - 1853 - 194 pages
...however, to infer from these instances, that there are any cases in which two bodies or portions of two bodies can occupy the same space at the same time, the diminution in bulk being thus explained : — Every body in nature is composed of an infinite number...
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Political Debates Between Hon. Abraham Lincoln and Hon. Stephen A. Douglas ...

Abraham Lincoln - Lincoln-Douglas Debates, Ill., 1858 - 1860 - 280 pages
...of thought. It is precisely no other than the putting of that most unphilosophical proposition, that two bodies can occupy the same space at the same time. The Dred Scott decision covers the whole ground, and while it occupies it, there is no room even for the...
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Introductory Course of Natural Philosophy for the Use of Schools and Academies

Adolphe Ganot - Physics - 1865 - 518 pages
...they may likewise be of the. same form and yet be of very different magnitudes. Impenetrability. 7. IMPENETRABILITY is that property by virtue of which no two bodies can occupy the same place at the same time. This property is self-evident, although phenomena are observed which would...
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Introductory Course of Natural Philosophy for the Use of Schools and Academies

Adolphe Ganot - Physics - 1865 - 524 pages
...be of the same form and yet be of very different magnitudes. Impenetrability. 7. IsiPEiorrEABiLiTY is that property by virtue of which no two bodies can occupy the same place at the same time. This property is self-evident, although phenomena are observed which would...
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Introductory Course of Natural Philosophy for the Use of Schools and Academies

Adolphe Ganot, William Guy Peck - Physics - 1871 - 516 pages
...they may likewise be of the same form and yet be of very different magnitudes. Impenetrability. 7. IMPENETRABILITY is that property by virtue of which no two bodies can occupy the same place at the same time. This property is self-evident, although phenomena are observed which would...
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Introductory Course of Natural Philosophy for the Use of Schools and Academies

Adolphe Ganot, William Guy Peck - Physics - 1871 - 510 pages
...likewise be of the same form and yet be of very different magnitudes. Impenetrability. ^« BfpKNirnuBinxv is that property by virtue of which no two bodies can occupy the same place at the same time. This property is self evident, although phenomena are oh* served which would...
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English Composition for the Use of Schools

Robert Armstrong - 1872 - 344 pages
...however, to infer from these instances, that there are any cases in which two bodies or portions of two bodies can occupy the same space at the same time, the diminution in bulk being thus explained : — Every body in nature is composed of an infinite number...
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Course in Elementary Physics

Charles Robert Cross - Mechanics - 1873 - 104 pages
...essential characteristics: (1) extension, or the property of occupying space, and (2) impenetrability, by virtue of which no two bodies can occupy the same space at the same time. The second of these sometimes seems to be contradicted by experience. Thus when an inverted bottle is immersed...
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Transactions of the Manchester Geological Society, Volume 13

Geology - 1876 - 434 pages
...it could run and settle, it is evident that the limestone must have been displaced by the ore, for no two bodies can occupy the same space at the same time. The absence, then, of any such disturbance as would necessarily arise by the forcible displacement of one...
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