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The Elements of Euclid: Viz, the First Six Books, Together with the Eleventh ... - Page 9
by Euclid, Robert Simson - 1829 - 516 pages
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Reports of Cases in Law and Equity in the Supreme Court of the ..., Volume 3

Oliver Lorenzo Barbour, New York (State). Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1849 - 706 pages
...uninfluenced by the demonstration of the simplest problem in Euclid, and to which the axiom, " that things which are equal to the same are equal to one another," would be too abstruse for comprehension. The judgment and the note were familiar. and their relation...
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Of a Liberal Education in General

William Whewell - Education, Higher - 1850 - 432 pages
...It may be said, indeed, that every step in analysis is a syllogism, in which the major is the Axiom, Things which are equal to the same are equal to one another; and the minor is a proposition that two certain forms of symbols have been proved to be equal to the...
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Artis logicae rudimenta: with illustrative observations on each section by ...

Henry Aldrich - Logic - 1850 - 406 pages
...to be reared, and the final appeal in argument. They bear some 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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Of a Liberal Education in General; and with Especial Reference to the ...

William Whewell - Education, Higher - 1850 - 416 pages
...It may be said, indeed, that every step in analysis is a syllogism, in which the major is the Axiom, Things which are equal to the same are equal to one another; and the minor is a proposition that two certain forms of symbols have been proved to be equal to the...
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A Manual of Logic: Deductive and Inductive

H. H. Munro - Logic - 1850 - 272 pages
...the basis on which the syllogism is founded. They bear some 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 Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England, Volume 3

Francis Bacon - 1850 - 620 pages
...similar to that of music termed the declining of a cadence. 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....
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Negro-mania: Being an Examination of the Falsely Assumed Equality of the ...

John Campbell - African Americans - 1851 - 566 pages
...Asiatics, the utter destruction of all biblical chronology by this process would be another. " Now, ' things which are equal to the same are equal to one another.' If they are anterior to Shoopho's pyramid in Egypt, then Meroe must have been occupied in the earliest...
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Papers for the schoolmaster, Volumes 1-6

582 pages
...magnitudes are those which may bo so applied to one another as to coincide" the three others. Magnitudes whic'h are equal to the same are equal to one another. If equals arc added 'to equals, the sums are equal. If equals are taken from equals, the remainders are equal,...
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The Serpent Symbol, and the Worship of the Reciprocal Principles of Nature ...

Ephraim George Squier - History - 1851 - 294 pages
...authority, if not, possibly by the Egyptian documents yet deciphered) — which hypothesis is Euclidean. " Things which are equal to the same are equal to one another." Now, if the " Mundane Egg" be, in the papyric Rituals, the equivalent to Sun, and that, by other hieroglyphical...
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Thoughts on Self-culture, Addressed to Women

Maria Georgina Shirreff Grey, Emily Anne Eliza Shirreff - Self-culture - 1851 - 496 pages
...other," it is evidently only another mode of expressing the axiom in geometry, referred to above, " Things which are equal to the same, are equal to one another." These are not peculiar principles of particular sciences, but formulae of the essential laws of thought...
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