Whatfoever politive ideas we have in our minds of any fpace, duration, or number, let them be ever fo great, they are ftill finite ; but when we fuppofe an inexhauftible remainder, from which we remove all bounds, and wherein we allow the mind an endlefs... The Mathematician - Page 571751 - 399 pagesFull view - About this book
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...it : but how clear fo- n'te 4**' ever this Idea of the Infinity of Number be, there is nothing yet more evident, than the Abfurdity of the actual Idea of an infinite Number. Whatfoever pofitive Ideas we have in our Minds of any Space, Duration, or Number, let them be ever... | |
| Colin Maclaurin - Calculus - 1742 - 482 pages
...diftinguifhes betwixt this and the idea of an infinite number ; and fubjoins, that how clear focver our idea of the infinity of number may be, there is...evident than the abfurdity of the actual idea of an infinite-number. The latter part of the argument amounts to this : <c It is impoffible that ma" gnitude... | |
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...reflects on it : but how clear foever this idea of the infinity of number be, there is nothing yet more evident, than the abfurdity of the actual idea of an infinite number. Whatfoever politive ideas we have in our minds of any fpace, duration, or number, let them be ever... | |
| Colin MacLaurin - Calculus - 1801 - 506 pages
...distim-ui-hrs betwixt this and the idea of an infmite number ; and subjoin, that, how clear soever OUT idea of the infinity of number may be, there is nothing more evident than the absurdity of the actuaUdet of an i nti nitc number. The latter part of the argument amounts to this:... | |
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...that rcHe£ls on it; but how clear foever this idea of the infinity of number be, there is nothing yet more evident than the abfurdity of the actual idea of an infinite number.' Whatfocver pofitive idtas we have in our minds of any fpace, duration, or number, let them be ever... | |
| Robert Potts - Algebra - 1879 - 672 pages
...but he distinguishes between this and the idea of an infinite number ; and adds, that however clear our idea of the infinity of number may be, there is nothing more evident than the absurdity of the actual idea of an infinite number. And he further remarks, that while men talk and... | |
| Robert Potts - 1879 - 668 pages
...but he distinguishes between this and the idea of an infinite number ; and adds, that however clear our idea of the infinity of number may be, there is nothing more evident than the absurdity of the actual idea of an infinite number. And he further remarks, that while men talk and... | |
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