 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...  Posthumous Works - Page 30by John Locke - 1706 - 336 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1859 - 666 pages
...should be deep in mathematics, but that having got the way of reasoning, which that study necessarily brings the mind to, they might be able to transfer it to other parts of knowledge, as they have occasion." Mathematics, as too generally taught in our Common Schools, are calculated to weaken... | |
 | Sir William Hamilton - Education - 1861 - 816 pages
...demonstrations ; that having got the way of reasoning which that study necessarily brings the mind to, they may be able to transfer it to other parts of knowledge as they shall have occasion.' This, -however, is an egregious mistake; the mode of reasoning of mathematicians... | |
 | 1872 - 320 pages
...mathematicians ; but that having got the way of reasoning, to which that study necessarily brings the mind, they might be able to transfer it to other parts of knowledge, as they shall have occasion." BEAUTY AND SUBLIMITY. Our emotions of beauty are various; and, as they gradually... | |
 | Education - 1925 - 702 pages
...reasoning closely and in train," so that, "having got the way of reasoning, which 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 mathematical... | |
 | Thomas Fowler - Authors, English - 1880 - 222 pages
...should be deep mathematicians, but that, having got the way of reasoning which that study necessarily brings the mind to, they might be able to transfer it to other parts of knowledge, as they shall have occasion." The great difference to be observed in demonstrative and in probable reasoning... | |
 | John Locke - Knowledge, Theory of - 1881 - 182 pages
...should be deep mathematicians, but that having got the way of reasoning, which 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 mathematical... | |
 | Henry Barnard - Education - 1882 - 1112 pages
...should be deep mathematicians, but that having got the way of reasoning, which that study necessarily j i t Y P= 3 =E; t\ 6 DdD = 8 shall have occasion. For, in all sorts of reasoning, every single argument should be managed as a mathematical... | |
 | Thomas Fowler - 1883 - 224 pages
...should be deep mathematicians, but that, having got the way of reasoning which that study necessarily brings the mind to, they might be able to transfer it to other parts of knowledge, as they shall have occasion." The great difference to be observed in demonstrative and in probable reasoning... | |
 | Biography - 1883 - 836 pages
...should be deep mathematicians, but that, having got the way of reasoning which that study necessarily brings the mind to, they might be able to transfer it to other parts of knowledge, as they shall have occasion." The great difference to be observed in demonstrative and in probable reasoning... | |
 | John Morley - Authors, English - 1894 - 618 pages
...mathematicians, but that, having got the way of reasoning which that study necessarily brings the mind to, thiiy might be able to transfer it to other parts of knowledge, as they shall have occasion."- The great difference to be observed in demonstrative and in probable reasoning... | |
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