 | Edward Stevens Robinson - Psychology - 1926 - 504 pages
...— Things equal to the same thing are equal to each other; (a + 6)2 = a2 + 2 ab + b2; the square of the hypothenuse of a right-angled triangle is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides; the intensity of a sound is inversely proportional to the square... | |
 | Mark Amadeus Notturno - Philosophy - 1989 - 520 pages
...As an instance of this kind of act he might cite his judging on 1st January 1879 that the square of the hypothenuse of a right-angled triangle is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides; in this case what he judged, ie, the object of his judgment, would... | |
 | David M. Knight - Atoms - 1998 - 576 pages
...practical examples, before the science was established by abstract reasoning. Thus, that the square of the hypothenuse of a right-angled triangle is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides, was an experimental discovery, else why did the discoverer sacrifice... | |
 | Asa Mahan - Philosophy - 2003 - 494 pages
...absolutely assured, that Realism must be true, and these systems false, as they will be, that the square of the hypothenuse of a right-angled triangle is equal to the sum of the squares of its two sides, and that we shall have just as much reason to apprehend, that in the... | |
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The square described on the hypothenuse of a rightangled triangle is equal to the sum of the squares described on the other two sides. 
