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Nature - Page 164
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Abridgment of Mental Philosophy: Including the Three Departments of the ...

Thomas Cogswell Upham - 1869 - 564 pages
...of no consequence ; the opposite of it will al ways imply some fallacy. Thus, the proposition, that the three angles of a triangle are not equal to two right angles, and other propositions, which are the opposite of what has been demonstrated, will always be found...
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Nature, Volume 2

Sir Norman Lockyer - 1870 - 652 pages
...light arises from something which is not at the sun. But really where a mathematical demonstration ot a fact is extant, the consideration of arguments derived...sun. In the supplementary number of the Notices of (he Astronomical Society, I hope to give a further explanation of the extremely simple proof on which...
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Nature, Volume 2

Sir Norman Lockyer - 1870 - 596 pages
...light arises from something which is net at the sun. But really where a mathematical demonstration ot a fact is extant, the consideration of arguments derived...degrees of the eclipsed sun. In the supplementary numl>cr of the A'alias of the Astronomical Society, I hope to give a further explanation of the cxlremely...
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Heathenism and Mosaism.- pt. 2. Christianity

Sabine Baring-Gould - 1870 - 430 pages
...nature, but in His will. Truth and right are only true and right because He chooses them so to be. The three angles of a triangle are not equal to two right angles because this is a necessary truth, but because God has decided that so it shall be. Creation is thus...
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The Christian Ambassador, Volume 9

1871 - 404 pages
...body can be in and out of a place at the same instant ; that nothing can produce something, or that the three angles of a triangle are not equal to two right angles. The claim to infallibility is simply ridiculousabsurdity can no further go. We should as soon believe...
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The Miraculous Element in the Gospels: A Course of Lectures on the "Ely ...

Alexander Balmain Bruce - 1886 - 404 pages
...days, the professor of mathematics propounded this question for discussion to his class: Assuming that the three angles of a triangle are not equal to two right angles, what consequences follow? I desire to discuss the new metaphysical problem as dispassionately as, in...
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The Presbyterian Quarterly, Volume 3

1889 - 656 pages
...where, according to Voltaire's "Micromegas," a crime of enormous turpitude inspires absolute envy, and the three angles of a triangle are not equal to two right angles. One feels that he has no common ground on which he stands with Dr. Dorner, no principles accepted on...
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New Outlook, Volume 80

1905 - 1344 pages
...justify almost any conclusion provided he is allowed to make his own definition. It is easy to prove that the three angles of a triangle are not equal to two right angles, provided you begin by defining a right angle in the terms which previous geometricians have used to...
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The Outlook, Volume 80

1905 - 1102 pages
...justify almost any conclusion provided he is allowed to make his own definition. It is easy to prove that the three angles of a triangle are not equal to two right angles, provided you begin by defining a right angle in the terms which previous geometricians have used to...
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Early Responses to Hume's Metaphysical and Epistemological Writings: Volumes ...

James Fieser - 2005 - 408 pages
...contradiction to those laws which will compel it to rise to-morrow. I may, if I please, assert that the three angles of a triangle are not equal to two right ones. This is as intelligible a Proposition as its opposite; but its being equally intelligible does...
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