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... argument , to have before me a figure which I know to be extremely inaccurate . Crooked and thick lines . are to my eye symbols of lines straight and wholly without thickness . I do not let their crookedness and thickness enter my argument ...
... argument , to have before me a figure which I know to be extremely inaccurate . Crooked and thick lines . are to my eye symbols of lines straight and wholly without thickness . I do not let their crookedness and thickness enter my argument ...
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... arguments to a commanding generalization , ( comparable to our Laws of Mechanics , ) from which they attempted to reason downward to all truth . - This I find to be THIRLWALL'S judg ment in his History of Greece ; and so far as I know ...
... arguments to a commanding generalization , ( comparable to our Laws of Mechanics , ) from which they attempted to reason downward to all truth . - This I find to be THIRLWALL'S judg ment in his History of Greece ; and so far as I know ...
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... argument's sake , that an animal , of form and other instincts quite unhuman , were found to practise cookery , no one would on that account . allow it to be a man : that is why we decisively reject the power of cookery as an ...
... argument's sake , that an animal , of form and other instincts quite unhuman , were found to practise cookery , no one would on that account . allow it to be a man : that is why we decisively reject the power of cookery as an ...
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... arguing just in the same way , as in the proof that 5 = 3 + 2 . Of Geometrical truths , beyond the chief Axioms , which are not exclusively Geometrical , few ( if any ) are verbal . They cannot be inferred from the definitions by a mere ...
... arguing just in the same way , as in the proof that 5 = 3 + 2 . Of Geometrical truths , beyond the chief Axioms , which are not exclusively Geometrical , few ( if any ) are verbal . They cannot be inferred from the definitions by a mere ...
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... argument . For instance , they give warning of a change of nomenclature , which , unless carefully conducted , may involve fallacy . Or again , they bring unreasonableness and injustice into strong light : as , to say , in rebuking ...
... argument . For instance , they give warning of a change of nomenclature , which , unless carefully conducted , may involve fallacy . Or again , they bring unreasonableness and injustice into strong light : as , to say , in rebuking ...
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