 | 1904 - 294 pages
...never yet been vouchsafed to any other human being. — Macaulay. Ages ago was laid down the axiom that things which are equal to the same are equal to one another. Let X stand for the play writer and B for the person whose surname does not appeal to "aesthetic."... | |
 | Euclid - Mathematics, Greek - 1908 - 456 pages
...who apparently "has been deceived in applying what is manifest, when understood of magnitudes, unto ratios, viz. that a magnitude cannot be both greater and less than another." The proof substituted by Simson is satisfactory and simple. " Let A have to C a greater ratio than... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1904 - 1122 pages
...but acknowledgs its expediency. I would only obserie with regard to the so-called distinctions thit things which are equal to the same are equal to one another. I would ask your Lordship. to consider what ha¿ns¿ U 2 in the case of a licensed house being de-... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - 1909 - 234 pages
...straight and crooked would have no more meaning to him, than red and blue to the blind. The axiom, that things which are equal to the same are equal to one another, is only a particular case of the predication of similarity ; if there were no impressions, it is obvious... | |
 | Arthur Edward Waite - Freemasonry - 1911 - 498 pages
...above all I have no part in those Wardens of the Gates who deny in their particular enthusiasm that things which are equal to the same are equal to one another, since these Wardens are blind. I have mentioned the anti-Masonic Congress which was once held at Trent,... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - 1914 - 344 pages
...straight and crooked would have no more meaning to him, than red and blue to the blind. The axiom, that things which are equal to the same are equal to one another, is only a particular case of the predication of similarity; if there were no impressions, it is obvious... | |
 | William Henry Leffingwell - Efficiency, Industrial - 1926 - 890 pages
...mental characteristics will be alike, a logical deduction from the established scientific principle that things which are equal to the same are equal to one another. During the past 15 or 20 years large groups of psychologists in all modern countries have been exploring... | |
 | Medicine - 1863 - 702 pages
...insisted on by Mr. Lewes and others — namely, that alcohol replaced a certain amount of food ; and " as things which are equal to the same are equal to one another," he inferred that if a glass of ale was equal to a slice of mutton in its satisfying effect, and that... | |
 | Dermatology - 1891 - 440 pages
...or merely a pars minoris resistentue ? If tubercular, then they are the same in nature as lupus (as things which are equal to the same are equal to one another). But tuberculin tends to cure lupus, and tends to make chilblains worse ; hence if chilblains are tubercular... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1845 - 610 pages
...discovery, that both languages admit of the same Erse interpretation, upon the geometrical principle that things which are equal to the same are equal to one another. This argument however depends for its validity on the accuracy of his remaining assumption, that the... | |
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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. 
