 There is no more common error than to assume that, because prolonged and accurate mathematical calculations have been made, the application of the result to some fact of nature is absolutely certain'.  An Introduction to Mathematics - 27. lappuseautors: Alfred North Whitehead - 1911 - 256 lapasPilnskats - Par šo grāmatu
 | Richard De Villamil - 1912 - 226 lapas
...requires therefore considerable audacity to question anything he says on his special subject. Still, " there is no more common error than to assume that,...conclusion of no argument can be more certain than the assumption from which it starts" (Whitehead, Introduction to Mathematics). If we grant Professor Lamb's... | |
 | M. A. S. Riach - 1916 - 162 lapas
...fact they are to be regarded as of an extremely tentative nature. This caution is necessary, for " There is no more common error than to assume that,...conclusion of no argument can be more certain than the assumption from which it starts " (Whitehead, " Introduction to Mathematics "). Mathematics are too... | |
 | John Maynard Keynes - 1921 - 494 lapas
...analyse, so far as I can, the logical 1 Cf. Whitehead, Introduction to Mathematics, p. 27 : " There U no more common error than to assume that, because...result to some fact of nature is absolutely certain." basis of statistical modes of argument. This involves a double task. To mark down those which are invalid... | |
 | Sir Arthur Newsholme - 1924 - 670 lapas
...workers will do well always to keep in mind the warning conveyed by Keynes in the following words : " There is no more common error than to assume that...result to some fact of nature is absolutely certain " (p. 382). Again (p. 384) : " To apply these methods to material, unanalysed in respect of the circumstances... | |
 | Robert Emmet Chaddock - 1925 - 500 lapas
...in his Treatise on Probability, published in 1922, warns the statistical worker as follows (p. 382): "There is no more common error than to assume that...mathematical calculations have been made, the application of U.« result to some fact of nature is absolutely certain." marked, these variables are difficult to... | |
 | Richard James Hammond - 1951 - 456 lapas
...this order seems also to be the smallest that need be taken into account in discussing requirements. 1 'There is no more common error than to assume that,...result to some fact of nature is absolutely certain'. Whitehead, AN, Introduction to Mathematics, p. 27. 2 In the 1944 Consumption Levels Inquiry a table... | |
 | Graham F. Carey - 1997 - 518 lapas
...Mazes intricate Eccentric, interwoced, yet regular Then most, when most irregular they seem. Milton There is no more common error than to assume that...because prolonged and accurate mathematical calculations hace been made, the application of the result to some fact of nature is absolutely certain. AN Whitehead... | |
 | C.C. Gaither, Alma E Cavazos-Gaither - 1998 - 506 lapas
...writes with a misty profundity, he is talking nonsense. Introduction to Mathematical Science Chapter 15 There is no more common error than to assume that,...result to some fact of nature is absolutely certain. Introduction to Mathematical Science Chapter 3 The essence of applied mathematics is to know what to... | |
 | Brendan Kelly - 1999 - 100 lapas
...Over 50 years ago, the great American philosopher and mathematician, Alfred North Whitehead, observed, There is no more common error than to assume that,...result to some fact of nature is absolutely certain. Before we begin to use the processing power of the graphics calculator, we must become aware of some... | |
 | Roy M Chiulli - 1999 - 598 lapas
...characteristics of several entities), heteroskedasticity is not likely to be a problem for time-series data. "There is no more common error than to assume that,...result to some fact of nature is absolutely certain. " Alfred North Whitehead Linear Programming (LP) 9.1 Introduction The total number of possible actions... | |
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