 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...  The Elements of Logic: In Four Books ... - Page 144by William Duncan - 1802 - 239 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Sir William Hamilton - Education - 1852 - 848 pages
...habit of reasouiiig closely, and in train, is to exercise ourselves in mathematical demonstrations ; that having got the way of reasoning which that study...other parts of knowledge as they shall have occasion.' This, however, is an egregious mistake; the mode of reasoning of mathematicians being founded on the... | |
 | Sir William Hamilton - Education - 1853 - 828 pages
...habit of reasoning closely, and in train, is to exercise ourselves in mathematical demonstrations ; that having got the way of reasoning which that study...other parts of knowledge as they shall have occasion.' This, however, is an egregious mistake ; the mode of reasoning of mathematicians being founded on the... | |
 | Thomas Fisher - Mathematics - 1854 - 156 pages
...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; for in all sorts of reasoning, every single argument should be managed as a mathematical... | |
 | 1859 - 666 pages
...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
...habit of reasoning closely, and in train, is to exercise ourselves in mathematical demonstrations ; that having got the way of reasoning which that study...other parts of knowledge as they shall have occasion.' This, -however, is an egregious mistake; the mode of reasoning of mathematicians being founded on the... | |
 | 1872 - 320 pages
...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 rise, from object... | |
 | Education - 1925 - 702 pages
...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,...single argument should be managed as a mathematical demonstration."22 Simple arithmetic may be correlated with geography and astronomy. History is an important... | |
 | Thomas Fowler - Authors, English - 1880 - 222 pages
...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 is that, in the former... | |
 | Biography - 1883 - 836 pages
...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 is that, in the former,... | |
 | Thomas Fowler - 1883 - 224 pages
...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 is that, in the former... | |
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