 | 1824 - 844 pages
...necessary truth, are much indebted to Leibnitz for the introduction of this principle into philosophy. Another principle of great use in investigating the...concerned, it was distinctly laid down by Galileo, 2 and ascribed by him to Plato. But, though Leibnitz 1 The argument of Leibnitz seems evidently inconclusive.... | |
 | 1824 - 878 pages
...of change in general, was brought into view by the same author,—the law of Continuity,—according to which, nothing passes from one state to another...concerned, it was distinctly laid down by Galileo, 2 and ascribed by him to Plato. But, though Leibnitz 1 The argument of Leibnitz seems evidently inconclusive.... | |
 | Sir Daniel Keyte Sandford - 1836 - 496 pages
...both possessed of exactly the same properties. Another principle brought into view by I^eibnitz, was the law of Continuity — according to which, nothing...without passing through all the intermediate states. Though Leibnitz considers himself as ttie lirst who pointed out this law, it is but failto state that... | |
 | 1841 - 956 pages
...both possessed of i exactly the same properties. Another principle brought into view by Leibnitz, was the law of Continuity — according to which, nothing...without passing through all the intermediate states. Though Leibnitz considers himself as the first who pointed out this law, it is but fair to state that... | |
 | 1844 - 648 pages
...to New York without entering Pennsylvania, should advance this feat as an argument against Leibnitz' Law of Continuity — according to which nothing passes...without passing through all the intermediate states. Not so : — The first number of the " Gentleman's Magazine" was published on the first of January,... | |
 | 1844 - 638 pages
...to New York without entering Pennsylvania, should advance this feat as an argument against Leibnitz' Law of Continuity — according to which nothing passes...without passing through all the intermediate states. Not so : — The first number of the " Gentleman's Magazine" was published on the first of January,... | |
 | W. M. Buchanan - 1846 - 768 pages
...is tbe same with the antecedent of the second, asA:B::B:C. CONTIMU'ITY, LAW OF, may be thus stated : nothing passes from one state to another without passing through all the intermediate states. CONTOJLT'ED. 1. In botany, Ac. .twisted. 2. In architecture, wreathed. CON'THABAND, from contra and... | |
 | John Craig (F.G.S.) - 1848 - 1134 pages
...close union of parts. ' £<w> o/ continuity, in Physics, a principle laid down by Libnitz, viz., that nothing passes from one state to another without passing through all the intermediate changes. CONTINUO, kon-tin'uo, a. (Italian.) In Music, continued. CoNTDtuous, kon-tin'n-us, a. Joined... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe, Rufus Wilmot Griswold, Nathaniel Parker Willis, James Russell Lowell - 1850 - 642 pages
...to New York without entering Pennsylvania, should advance this feat as an argument against Leibnitz' Law of Continuity — according to which nothing passes...without passing through all the intermediate states. or. Macaulay, in his just admiration of Addison, over-rates Tickell, and does not seem to be aware... | |
 | Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford, Henry Vethake - 1851 - 666 pages
...those countries respectively. CONTINUITY (Law of) is that law of nature by which a body cannot pass from one state to another without passing through all the intermediate states ; a law which is sometimes expressed, by saying that every change in the condition of a body takes... | |
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Law of Continuity — according to which nothing passes from one state to another without passing through all the intermediate states. 
