... attained by reasoning, its truth or falsehood can be ascertained, in geometry by actual measurement, in algebra by common arithmetical calculation. This gives confidence, and is absolutely necessary, if, as was said before, reason is not to be the... Arithmetic, Its Principles and Practice - Page vby James W. Kavanagh - 1857 - 266 pagesFull view - About this book
| Augustus De Morgan - 1831 - 108 pages
...absolutely necessary, if, as was said before, reason is not to be the instructor, but the pupil. 5. There are no words whose meanings are so much alike...no distinction, except a total distinction, and all adjectives and adverbs expressing difference of degrees are avoided. Thus it may be necessary to say... | |
| Mathematics - 1836 - 352 pages
...absolutely necessary, if, as was said before, reason is not to be the instructor, but the pupil. 5. There are no words whose meanings are so much alike...no distinction, except a total distinction, and all adjectives and adverbs expressing difference of degrees are avoided. Thus it may be necessary to say... | |
| John Murdoch - 1875 - 366 pages
...absolutely necessary, if, as was said before, reason is not to be the instructor, but the pupil. " 5. There are no words whose meanings are so much alike...no distinction, except a total distinction, and all adjectives and adverbs expressing difference of degrees are avoided. Thus it may be necessary to say... | |
| Benjamin Franklin Finkel - Mathematics - 1888 - 518 pages
...and is absolutely necessary, if, as was said before, reason is not to be instructor, but pupil. 5°. There are no words whose meanings are so much alike...meanings of terms there is no distinction, except absolute distinction, and all adjectives and adverbs expressing difference of degree are avoided. Thus... | |
| Alfred Ewen Fletcher - Education - 1889 - 592 pages
...confidence, and is absolutely necessary, while the reason is not to be the instructor, but the pupil ; (5) there are no words whose meanings are so much alike...be confounded. Between the meanings of terms there fs no distinction, except a total distinction, and adjectives and adverbs expressing difference of... | |
| Alfred Ewen Fletcher - Education - 1892 - 582 pages
...confidence, and is absolutely necessary, while the reason is not to be the instructor, but the pupil ; (5) there are no words whose meanings are so much alike...is no distinction except a total distinction, and adjectives and adverbs expressing difference of degree are almost entirely avoided. Tli us it may be... | |
| Augustus De Morgan - Algebra - 1898 - 306 pages
...absolutely necessary, if, as was said before, reason is not to be the instructor, but the pupil. 5. There are no words whose meanings are so much alike...no distinction, except a total distinction, and all adjectives and adverbs expressing difference of degrees are avoided. Thus it may be necessary to say,... | |
| Augustus De Morgan - Mathematics - 1898 - 316 pages
...absolutely necessary, if, as was said before, reason is not to be the instructor, but the pupil. 5. There are no words whose meanings are so much alike...ideas which they stand for may be confounded. Between trie meanings of terms there is no distinction, except a total distinction, and all adjectives and... | |
| Charles De Garmo - Education - 1908 - 224 pages
...can be ascertained, in geometry by actual measurement, in algebra by common arithmetical calculation. alike that the ideas which they stand for may be confounded....no distinction, except a total distinction, and all adjectives and adverbs expressing difference of degrees are avoided." From the foregoing remarks it... | |
| Robert Édouard Moritz - Mathematics - 1914 - 434 pages
...absolutely necessary, if, as was said before, reason is not to be the instructor, but the pupil. 6. There are no words whose meanings are so much alike...which they stand for may be confounded. Between the meaning of terms there is no distinction, except a total distinction, and all adjectives and adverbs... | |
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