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... physical and mathematical sciences made since the revival of letters . In our time we possess an almost com- plete comprehension of many parts of physical science which seemed to Socrates , the wisest of men , beyond the powers of the ...
... physical and mathematical sciences made since the revival of letters . In our time we possess an almost com- plete comprehension of many parts of physical science which seemed to Socrates , the wisest of men , beyond the powers of the ...
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... physical proof , apparent to the eyes , of the extreme incompleteness of the Aris- totelian logic . Not only are the syllogisms and other old forms of argument capable of being worked upon the machine , but an indefinite number of other ...
... physical proof , apparent to the eyes , of the extreme incompleteness of the Aris- totelian logic . Not only are the syllogisms and other old forms of argument capable of being worked upon the machine , but an indefinite number of other ...
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... physical science it is not so , and the distinction has been expressed , as it seems to me , with admirable insight by Professor Bowen in his well - known " Treatise on Logic , or the Laws of Pure Thought . " He says of mathe- 1 ...
... physical science it is not so , and the distinction has been expressed , as it seems to me , with admirable insight by Professor Bowen in his well - known " Treatise on Logic , or the Laws of Pure Thought . " He says of mathe- 1 ...
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... physical science . Mathematicians , again , are in favour because they help the physical philosophers : accordingly the most incomprehensible specula- 1 La Logique ; Œuvres de Condillac , vol . xxii . p . 173 . tions concerning a ...
... physical science . Mathematicians , again , are in favour because they help the physical philosophers : accordingly the most incomprehensible specula- 1 La Logique ; Œuvres de Condillac , vol . xxii . p . 173 . tions concerning a ...
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