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" I mean to assert a truth which is as independent of my constitution as the equality of the three angles of a triangle to two right angles? "
Outlines of Moral Philosophy - Page 134
by Dugald Stewart - 1818 - 320 pages
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Spectacle de la Nature: Or, Nature Display'd. Being Discourses on Such ...

Noël Antoine Pluche - 1763 - 378 pages
...of God by the following Argument, which is as mort and fatisfactory as that whereby we demonftrate the Equality of the three Angles of a Triangle to two right ones. There is fome Being which exifts from all Eternity, or the Beings we now fee muft have proceeded...
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Observations on the Nature of Demonstrative Evidence: With an Explanation of ...

Thomas Beddoes - 1793 - 196 pages
...made it to confift in the confcioufnefs of thofe perceptions ; but I furpeft his favourite example of the equality of the three angles of a triangle to two right angles, which he alfo produces upon this occafion, led him to, adopt expreffions not fufficiently comprehenfive....
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Memoirs of the life and writings of ... Henry Home of Kames [by A.F. Tytler].

Alexander Fraser Tytler (lord Woodhouselee.) - 1807 - 464 pages
...effectually excluding all possibility of being so much us conceived to be not necessary. He that conceives the equality of the three angles of a. triangle to two right ones, not to be necessary, does not in truth conceive any such thing, but only carelessly affirms a...
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Elements of the Philosophy of the Human Mind, Volume 2

Dugald Stewart - 1814 - 582 pages
...breadth, "an object of conception *." In like manner, while I am studying Euclid's demonstration of the equality of the three angles •of a triangle to two right angles, I find no difficulty in following his train of reasoning, although it has no reference whatever -to-...
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Elements of Logick: Or, A Summary of the General Principles and Different ...

Levi Hedge - 1816 - 220 pages
...our assent to that, on which there appears the greatest weight of evidence. Thus, having demonstrated the equality of the three angles of a triangle to two right ones, there is no need of inquiring what may be urged against the demonstration. But the case is different...
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Monthly Review; Or Literary Journal Enlarged

Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1818 - 596 pages
...Mr. Ferguson would have deemed it just as surprising, that any one should regard Euclid's proof of the equality of the three angles of a triangle to two right angles as preferable to his proof of direct meaturement. The method is objectionable on both occasions, and...
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Elements of the Philosophy of the Human Mind, Volume 2

Dugald Stewart - 1821 - 348 pages
...like manner, * Vol. I. pp. 157, 158, 3d edit. VOL. и. 9 while I am studying Euclid's demoastration of the equality of the three angles of a triangle to two right angles, I find no difficulty in following his train of reason, although it has no reference whatever to the...
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Elements of Moral Philosophy, Volume 2

Daniel Dewar - 1826 - 620 pages
...things, and consequently immutable and eternal, — in other words, are they included in necessary truth, which is as independent of my constitution,...the three angles of a triangle to two right angles ? This question is answered in the negative by many sceptical writers, who allege that the distinctions...
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Elements of Moral Philosophy and of Christian Ethics, Volume 2

Daniel Dewar - 1826 - 692 pages
...things, and consequently immutable and eternal, — in other words, are they included in necessary truth, which is as independent of my constitution,...the three angles of a triangle to two right angles ? This question is answered in the negative by many sceptical writers, who allege that the distinctions...
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Elements of mental and moral science; designed to exhibit the original ...

George Payne - 1828 - 574 pages
...remember that the words right and wrong express qualities of actions." " When I say," adds this writer, " of an act of justice that it is right, do I mean merely...the three angles of a triangle to two right angles ?"* The theory of Dr. Adam Smith is considerably different from that of Hutcheson. If, on contemplating...
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