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Common terms and phrasesabstract analogy analysis angles appear applied argument Aristotelian logic Aristotle Aristotle's attention axioms Bacon Binomial Theorem c'est coincidence common conceive concerning conclusions Condillac conjecture connexion consequence considered deduced definitions demonstration discovery doctrine Dugald Stewart employed equal errour Essay Euclid evidence experience expressed fact faculties farther final causes foregoing former geometer geometry human hypotheses idea illustration induction inference inquiries instance intellectual intuition judgment knowledge language laws Leibnitz logical logicians majur mathematical mathematicians maxims means Mechanical Philosophy ment metaphysical mind moral natural philosophy nature necessary Newton notions object observation occasion opinion Organon particular passage perceive phenomena philosophical physical Plato precision present principles proof proposition quae question quod reasoning Reid remark respect says seems sense shew Sir William Jones sophism species speculations supposed supposition syllogism syllogistic theorem theory thing tion triangle truth understanding universe word writers Popular passagesPage 263 - Whereas the main Business of Natural Philosophy is to argue from Phenomena without feigning Hypotheses, and to deduce Causes from Effects, till we come to the very first Cause, which certainly is not mechanical; and not only to unfold the Mechanism of the World, but chiefly to resolve these and such like Questions. Page 95 - I shall only appeal to the thirty-seventh proposition of the first book, .' in which it is proved that triangles on the same base, and between the same parallels, are equal... Page 207 - As in mathematics, so in natural philosophy, the investigation of difficult things by the method of analysis, ought ever to precede the method of composition. This analysis consists in making experiments and observations, and in drawing general conclusions from them by induction, and admitting of no objections against the conclusions, but such as are taken from experiments, or other certain truths. Page 259 - ... placed so many valves without design ; and no design seemed more probable than that, since the blood could not well, because of the interposing valves, be sent by the veins to the limbs, it should be sent through the arteries and return through the veins, whose valves did not oppose its course that way. Page 168 - There are men whose powers operate only at leisure and in retirement, and whose intellectual vigour deserts them in conversation ; whom merriment confuses, and objection disconcerts : whose bashfulness restrains their exertion, and suffers them not to speak till the time of speaking is past ; or whose attention to their own character makes them unwilling to utter at hazard what has not been considered, and cannot be recalled. Page 130 - ... him. This was his anxious care to go out or in at a door or passage, by a certain number of steps from a certain point, or at least so... Page 64 - I demonstrated the proposition of the abstract idea of a triangle. [And here it must be acknowledged that a man may consider a figure merely as triangular, without attending to the particular qualities of the angles, or relations of the sides. So far he may abstract; but this will never prove that he can frame an abstract, general, inconsistent idea of a triangle. Page 130 - I have, upon innumerable occasions, observed him suddenly stop, and then seem to count his steps with a deep earnestness ; and when he had neglected or gone wrong in this sort of magical movement, I have seen him go back again, put himself in a proper posture to begin the ceremony, and, having gone through it, break from his abstraction, walk briskly on, and join his companion'. Page 130 - ... by a certain number of steps from a certain point, or at least so as that either his right or his left foot (I am not certain which) should constantly make the first actual movement when he came close to the door or passage. Thus I conjecture : for I have, upon innumerable occasions, observed him suddenly stop, and then seem to count his steps with a deep earnestness; and when he had neglected or gone wrong in this sort of magical movement... 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