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... knowledge has been gradually made to rest upon a basis which it had not before . It has become mathematical . The question now is , not whether this or that hypothesis is better or worse to the pure thought , but whether it accords with ...
... knowledge has been gradually made to rest upon a basis which it had not before . It has become mathematical . The question now is , not whether this or that hypothesis is better or worse to the pure thought , but whether it accords with ...
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... knowledge of what has been done by others , especially as to the mode of doing it , a preliminary to in- venting knowledge for himself . That a little knowledge is a dangerous thing is one of the most fallacious of proverbs . A person ...
... knowledge of what has been done by others , especially as to the mode of doing it , a preliminary to in- venting knowledge for himself . That a little knowledge is a dangerous thing is one of the most fallacious of proverbs . A person ...
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... knowledge , when to any purpose , must come by contemplation of old knowledge , in every matter which concerns thought ; mechanical contrivance sometimes , not very often , escapes this rule . All the men who are now called discoverers ...
... knowledge , when to any purpose , must come by contemplation of old knowledge , in every matter which concerns thought ; mechanical contrivance sometimes , not very often , escapes this rule . All the men who are now called discoverers ...
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... knowledge disposes of twenty - nine cases out of thirty , and the thirtieth is worth listening to . I have not set down Copernicus , Galileo , & c . among the para- doxers , merely because everybody knows them ; if my list were quite ...
... knowledge disposes of twenty - nine cases out of thirty , and the thirtieth is worth listening to . I have not set down Copernicus , Galileo , & c . among the para- doxers , merely because everybody knows them ; if my list were quite ...
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... knowledge of the class of discoverers who square the circle , upset Newton , & c . I suspect I know more of the English class than any man in Britain . I never kept any reckoning ; but I know that one year with another — and less of ...
... knowledge of the class of discoverers who square the circle , upset Newton , & c . I suspect I know more of the English class than any man in Britain . I never kept any reckoning ; but I know that one year with another — and less of ...
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A Budget of Paradoxes Volume 2 David Eugene Smith,Augustus de Morgan,Sophia Elizabeth De Morgan Pré-visualização indisponível - 2015 |
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