 | Sid Smith - 1838 - 246 lapas
...ultimate truth. Take the simplest proposition, and try it by the test of this principle. When we say, that " things, equal to the same thing are equal to one another," we have no abstract reason for the statement, or any ground a priori for making such an assertion. Before... | |
 | 1847 - 556 lapas
...true also. But if these axioms be not admitted, reasoning can have no place. If it be not admitted that things equal to the same thing are equal to one another, we cannot construct a system of geometry. If it be not admitted that the indications of consciousness... | |
 | William Robinson Pirie - 1858 - 668 lapas
...foundation of comparison, we know what whiteness is, and what blackness is. Accordingly, when we say that " things equal to the " same thing are equal to one another," we define equality by a speciality so essentially of its nature, that we at once recognise it as a fact... | |
 | Alexander Bain - 1870 - 568 lapas
...can be raised. Neither of these two axioms is necessary, in the sense of Implication. When we affirm that 'things equal to the same thing are equal to one another/ we do not affirm an identical proposition ; the subject is not involved in the predicate. Equality is... | |
 | George Douglas Campbell Duke of Argyll - 1896 - 588 lapas
...is nothing in the nature of faith. There is no moral element, for example, in the conviction we have that things equal to the same thing are equal to one another. We cannot help ourselves in entertaining this conviction. It is to us a mere necessity of thought, the... | |
 | George Douglas Campbell Duke of Argyll - 1896 - 590 lapas
...is nothing in the nature of faith. There is no moral element, for example, in the conviction we have that things equal to the same thing are equal to one another. We cannot help ourselves in entertaining this conviction. It is to us a mere necessity of thought, the... | |
 | 1905 - 902 lapas
...was equal to eight Delhi tankas — ie, I presume Sikandari tankahs — and if so, on the principle that things equal to the same thing are equal to one another, we may hold that Birari — ie, old Gujrati tankas — were equal to eight muradis. It also appears from Abul... | |
 | James Hastings, Ann Wilson Hastings, Edward Hastings - 1896 - 608 lapas
...'Seven eyes, which are the seven spirits of God sent forth into all the earth.' As it is axiomatic that things equal to the same thing are equal to one another, we may hold the seven lamps to be the seven eyes of God. We offer this consideration, however, not as itself... | |
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There is no moral element, for example, in the conviction we have that things equal to the same thing are equal to one another. 