 | Samuel Earnshaw - 1832 - 228 σελίδες
...space ; consequently, if it begin to move at all, it must move in every direction at the same instant, for there is no reason why it should move in one direction rather than another : which is absurd. Therefore it will remain at rest. Secondly. Under the same circumstances... | |
 | Isaac Todhunter - 1853 - 362 σελίδες
...same plane and the three angles BAC, CAD, DAB each equal to 120°; the particle will remain at rest, for there is no reason why it should move in one direction rather than another. Each of the forces is therefore equal and opposite to the resultant of the other two. But... | |
 | Stephen Henry Emmens (writer on logic.) - 1865 - 208 σελίδες
...immovably in space, because * " being equidistant from the containing heaven in every direction, there was no reason why it should move in one direction rather than in another." There remains but one more species of a priori fallacies to which I shall allude, viz., those arguments... | |
 | Isaac Todhunter - 1866 - 386 σελίδες
...same plane and the three angles BAC, CAD, DAB each equal to 120°; the particle will remain at rest, for there is no reason why it should move in one direction rather than another. Each of the forces is therefore equal and opposite to the resultant of the other two. But... | |
 | Isaac Todhunter - 1867 - 368 σελίδες
...angle of 120° with the directions of the two others. Then it is obvious that the particle will be in equilibrium; for there is no reason why it should...parallelogram OACB. Then AC=OB=OA; therefore the angle AGO—the angle AOC= 60°. Hence the triangle OAC is equilateral, so that OC= OA. 33. Suppose that... | |
 | George Henry Lewes - 1875 - 500 σελίδες
...direction, a body must have its motion compounded with another. To say that a body at rest "contains no reason" why it should move in one direction rather than in another, seems as uninstructive as to say that the diagonal of a parallelogram of forces contains no reason... | |
 | John Frederick Blake - 1877 - 470 σελίδες
...iiccount of its own equilibrium. Placed in the centre and iit an equal distance from its extremities, there is no reason 'why it should move in one direction rather than the other, and rests immovable in the centre without being able to leave it. The result of all is that... | |
 | John Frederick Blake - 1877 - 462 σελίδες
...account of its own equilibrium. Placed in the centre and at an equal distance from its extremities, there is no reason why it should move in one direction rather than the other, and rests immovable in the centre without being able to leave it. The result of all is that... | |
 | Borden Parker Bowne - 1882 - 576 σελίδες
...consists in bidding us conceive a single element in void space, and in pointing out that there is no more reason why it should move in one direction rather than in another. Then the conclusion is drawn that the element will remain at rest. But the law of the sufficient reason,... | |
 | William Briggs, George Hartley Bryan - 1894 - 254 σελίδες
...which the other tends to impart. The particle cannot move in opposite directions at the same time, and there is no reason why it should move in one direction rather than the other. Hence it will remain at rest, and the two forces will be said to balance, or be in equilibrium.... | |
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The nature of force is now, and always will be, unknown.' Force is known only by its effects: A point or particle at rest cannot give itself any motion since there is no reason why it should move in one direction rather than another. But if the particle... 
