 | Francis Bacon - 1841 - 616 σελίδες
...similar to that of music termed the declining of a cadence. 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.... | |
 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1841 - 618 σελίδες
...arrangement, how can the celebrated demand in the theory of parallels rank under the same head as that " things which are equal to the same are equal to one another." The misplacement of this axiom about parallels has cost many a trial at this old difficulty, and procured... | |
 | John Playfair - 1842 - 332 σελίδες
...But it has been proved that CA is equal to AB ; therefore CA, CB are each of them equal to AB ; now things which are equal to the same are equal to one another, (1. Axiom) ; therefore CA is equal to CB ; wherefore CA, AB, CB are equal to one another ; and the... | |
 | Sir Edward Johnson - 1842 - 622 σελίδες
...word which is equivalent to any one of them, must, therefore, also be equivalent to the others, since things which are equal to the same, are equal to one another. I have said that when we wish to convert a noun into a verb, we do so by prefixing the word to. Thus,... | |
 | Euclides - 1842 - 316 σελίδες
...has been proved that C л is equal to A в ; therefore CA, c в are each of them equal to AB : but things which are equal to the same are equal to one another (1. Axiom) ; therefore CA is equal to cв ; wherefore c A, AB, вc are equal to one another ; and the... | |
 | Philip Kelland - 1843 - 168 σελίδες
...I propose to take up the same subject, and inquire, for the sake of precision, whether the truth, " things which are equal to the same are equal to one another," is demonstrable or not. If it be an immediate consequence of our conception of equality, then is it... | |
 | George Robins Gliddon - 1844 - 92 σελίδες
...Asiatics, the utter destruction of all biblical chronology by thia process would be another. Now, " things which are equal to •the same are equal to one another." If they are anterior to Shoopho's pyramid in Egypt, then Weroe must have been occupied in the earliest... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1844 - 348 σελίδες
...similar to that of music termed the declining of a cadence. 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.... | |
 | 1845 - 404 σελίδες
...By the whole of any quantity we understand the sum of all its parts ; thus, AB = AD + DC + CB. 70. " Things which are equal to the same are equal to one another " ; that is, if a = m and b = m, a is equal to b. 71. In any arithmetical operation, " quantities which... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1845 - 632 σελίδες
...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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Things which are equal to the same thing are also equal to one another. 2. If equals be added to equals, the wholes are equal. 3. If equals be subtracted from equals, the remainders are equal. 4. Things which coincide with one another are equal to one... 
