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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. "
An Introduction to the Use of the Globes ... 3. Ed. Corr. and Enl - Page 10
by John Greig - 1816
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The Elements of Euclid: The Errors, by which Theon, Or Others, Have Long Ago ...

Robert Simson - Trigonometry - 1806 - 546 pages
...magnitudes, unto ratios, viz. that a magnitude cannot be both greater and less than another. That those things which are equal to the same are equal to one another, is a most evident axiom when understood of magnitudes ; yet Euclid does not make use of it to infer...
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The Monthly Anthology, and Boston Review, Volume 5

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...
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The Scots Magazine and Edinburgh Literary Miscellany, Volume 76

English literature - 1814 - 1032 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...
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Easy Introduction to Mathematics, Volume 2

Charles Butler - 1814 - 582 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...
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The Elements of Euclid: Viz. the First Six Books, Together with the Eleventh ...

Euclides - 1816 - 588 pages
...magnitudes, unto ratios, viz. that a magnitude cannot be both greater and less than another. That those things which are equal to the same are equal to one another, is a most.evident axiom when understood of magnitudes ; yet Euclid does not make use of it to infer,...
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The Oedipus Romanus; Or, An Attempt to Prove, from the Principles of ...

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...
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Elements of Geometry: Containing the First Six Books of Euclid: With a ...

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...
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Artis logicę rudimenta, with illustrative observations [and a transl. By J ...

Henry Aldrich - 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....
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The First Six Books with Notes

Euclid - 1822 - 222 pages
...line. 3. That 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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A Popular Course of Pure and Mixed Mathematics ...: With Tables of ...

Peter Nicholson - Mathematics - 1825 - 1046 pages
...But it has been proved dial CA is equal to AB ; therefore CA, CB, are each of diem equal to AB ; but things which are equal to the same are equal to one another (1st Axiom.) tiierefore CA is equal to CB ; wherefore CA, AB, BC, are equal to one another j and the...
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