 | 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... | |
 | Hargrave Jennings - Religion - 1996 - 150 pages
...authority, if not possibly by the Egyptian documents yet undeciphered — 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... | |
 | Religion - 1853 - 319 pages
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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. 
