 Now when a person cannot explain the principles of a science, without reference to a metaphor, the probability is, that he has never thought accurately upon the subject. A number may be greater or less than another number : it may be added to, taken from,...  The Principles of Algebra - Page ixby William Frend - 1796Full view - About this book
 | 1797 - 614 pages
...reference to Maclaurin's Algebra, that ' when n person cannot explain the principles of я science without reference to metaphor, the probability is that he has never thought accurately upon the subject/ Notwithstanding his objections io the phraseology which has been adopted and is still retained... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - Books - 1800 - 614 pages
...allufions to book-debts and other arts. Now, when a perfon caanot explain the principles of a fcience without reference to metaphor, the probability is,...accurately upon the fubjeft. A number may be greater or Ifefs than -another number; it maybe added to, lakeo from, multiplied into, and divided by another... | |
 | British Association for the Advancement of Science - Science - 1834 - 564 pages
...and other arts. Now when a person cannot explain the principles of a science, without reference to a metaphor, the probability is, that he has never thought accurately upon the subject. A number may be greater or less than another number : it may be added to, taken from, multiplied... | |
 | British Association for the Advancement of Science - Science - 1834 - 562 pages
...and other arts. Now when a person cannot explain the principles of a science, without reference to a metaphor, the probability is, that he has never thought accurately upon the subject. A number may be greater or less than another number : it may be added to, taken from, multiplied... | |
 | Alexander Macfarlane - Physicists - 1916 - 162 pages
...and other arts. Now when a person cannot explain the principles of a science without reference to a metaphor, the probability is, that he has never thought accurately upon the subject. A number may be greater or less than another number; it may be added to, taken from, multiplied... | |
 | Jesper Lützen - Cartography - 2001 - 306 pages
...such as financial debts or directed lines: "when a person cannot explain the principles of a science without reference to metaphor, the probability is, that he has never thought accurately upon the subject". [Frend 1796, x] Supporting Maseres' contention that negative and imaginary numbers were "a... | |
 | Gert Schubring - Mathematics - 2005 - 700 pages
...conceptually, but by examples of applications: Now, when a person cannot explain the principles of a science without reference to metaphor, the probability is, that he has never thought accurately upon the subject (Frend 1796, x). Frend made clear his own epistemological principles, saying that only positive... | |
 | Jeremy Kilpatrick - Education - 2005 - 280 pages
...and hate the labour of serious thought, [for] when a person cannot explain the principles of science without reference to metaphor, the probability is that he has never thought accurately upon the subject". Frend's son-in-law, the better-known mathematician De Morgan, was to write in his On the... | |
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