And what are these fluxions ? The velocities of evanescent increments. And what are these same evanescent increments ? They are neither finite quantities, nor quantities infinitely small, nor yet nothing. May we not call them the ghosts of departed quantities... The Works of George Berkeley - Стр. 435авторы: George Berkeley - 1820Полный просмотр - Подробнее о книге
| 1856 - Страниц: 420
...or pretended objector. Bishop Berkeley avails himself of it in his Analyst, .when he says (§ 85), " And what are these same evanescent increments ( They...we not call them the ghosts of departed quantities ?" Newton is not altogether guiltless of having done his part towards the creation of this confusion... | |
| 1856 - Страниц: 948
...real or pretended objector. Bishop Berkeley avails himself of it in his Analyst, when he says (§ 85), "And what are these same evanescent increments ? They...we not call them the ghosts of departed quantities ?" Newton is not altogether guiltless of having done his part towards the creation of this confusion... | |
| George Berkeley - 1871 - Страниц: 586
...which is a manifest inconsistency, and amounts to the same thing that hath been before considered 14. And there is indeed reason to apprehend that all attempts...we not call them the ghosts of departed quantities? 36. Men too often impose on themselves and others as if they conceived and understood things expressed... | |
| George Berkeley - 1871 - Страниц: 578
...that he used fluxions, like the 11 [Sect. 15.]— AUTHOR. Addressed to an Infidel Mathematician. 283 scaffold of a building, as things to be laid aside...we not call them the ghosts of departed quantities ? 36. Men too often impose on themselves and others as if they conceived and understood things expressed... | |
| George Berkeley - 1898 - Страниц: 606
...which is a manifest inconsistency, and amounts to the same thing that hath been before considered.1 And there is indeed reason to apprehend that all attempts...we not call them the ghosts of departed quantities ? 36. Men too often impose on themselves and others as if they conceived and understood things expressed... | |
| George Berkeley - 1898 - Страниц: 580
...and fine geometry on a right found* don, and avoiding the doctrine of velocities, momentums, &c.will be found impracticable, till such time as the object...we not call them the ghosts of departed quantities ? 36. Men too often impose on themselves and others as if they conceived and understood things expressed... | |
| George Berkeley - 1898 - Страниц: 556
...done on the received principles : and what in the way of demonstration he hath done with 1 Sect. 15. them the reader will judge. It must, indeed, be acknowledged...we not call them the ghosts of departed quantities ? 36. Men too often impose on themselves and others as if they conceived and understood things expressed... | |
| George Berkeley, Alexander Campbell Fraser - 1901 - Страниц: 448
...attempts for setting the i [Introd, ad Quadmluram Curvarum.']— AUTHOR. * [Sect. 15.] — AUTHOR. abstruse and fine geometry on a right foundation,...we not call them the ghosts of departed quantities ? 36. Men too often impose on themselves and others as if they conceived and understood things expressed... | |
| George Berkeley, Alexander Campbell Fraser - 1901 - Страниц: 444
...attempts for setting the 1 [Introd. ad Quadraturam Curvarum.]— AUTHOR. * [Sect. 15.] — AUTHOR. abstruse and fine geometry on a right foundation,...we not call them the ghosts of departed quantities ? 36. Men too often impose on themselves and others as if they conceived and understood things expressed... | |
| Robert Édouard Moritz - 1914 - Страниц: 434
...not, methinks, be squeamish about any point in Divinity. — BERKELEY, G. The Analyst, sect. 7. 1943. And what are these fluxions? The velocities of evanescent...infinitely small, nor yet nothing. May we not call them ghosts of departed quantities? — BERKELEY, G. The Analyst, sect. 35. 1944. It is said that the minutest... | |
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