 I have mentioned mathematics as a way to settle in the mind a habit of reasoning closely and in train; not that I think it necessary that all men should be deep mathematicians, but that having got the way of reasoning, which that study necessarily brings...  An Essay Concerning Human Understanding - Страница 339по John Locke - 1805 - 510 странициПълен достъп - Информация за книгата
 | Thomas Fisher - 1854 - 156 страници
...chap. 1, sec. 2. " I have mentioned Mathematics as a way to settle in the mind a habit of reasoning closely, and in train; not that I think it necessary...to transfer it to other parts of knowledge as they have occasion; for in all sorts of reasoning, every single argument should be managed as a mathematical... | |
 | 1859 - 666 страници
...mathematics, Locke said : "I have mentioned mathematics as a way to settle in the mind a habit of reasoning closely, and in train ; not that I think it necessary that all men should be deep in mathematics, but that having got the way of reasoning, which that study necessarily brings the mind... | |
 | Sir William Hamilton - 1861 - 816 страници
...habit of reasoning closely, and in train, is to exercise ourselves in mathematical demonstrations ; that having got the way of reasoning which that study necessarily brings the mind to, they may be able to transfer it to other parts of knowledge as they shall have occasion.' This, -however,... | |
 | Maria Edgeworth - 1861 - 476 страници
...Harry, it does not * " I have mentioned mathematics as a way to settle in the mind a habit of reasoning closely and in train ; not that I think it necessary that all men should he mathematicians, but that having got the way of reasoning, which that study necessarily brings the... | |
 | 1872 - 320 страници
...mentioned mathematics a* a way to settle hi the mind a habit of reasoning closely, and in train; nof, that I think it necessary that all men should be deep...mathematicians ; but that having got the way of reasoning, to which that study necessarily brings the mind, they might be able to transfer it to other parts of... | |
 | 1925 - 700 страници
...a man cannot have too much ; it settles in the mind a habit of reasoning closely and in train," so that, "having got the way of reasoning, which that...single argument should be managed as a mathematical demonstration."22 Simple arithmetic may be correlated with geography and astronomy. History is an important... | |
 | Thomas Fowler - 1880 - 222 страници
...him read Chillingworth." In this treatise, with the same view he commends the study of Mathematics, " Not that I think it necessary that all men should...parts of knowledge, as they shall have occasion." The great difference to be observed in demonstrative and in probable reasoning is that, in the former... | |
 | John Locke - 1881 - 182 страници
...Probability, see Essay, Bk. IV, chs. 15, 16, and ch. 17, § 5. It is by no means correct to say that ' in all sorts of reasoning every single argument should be managed as a mathematical demonstration.' It is indeed true that, in all cases, a belief should be traced 'to the source on which it bottoms'... | |
 | Henry Barnard - 1882 - 1112 страници
...Probability, see Essay, Bk. IV. chs. 15, 16, and ch. 17, } 5. It is by no means correct to say that ' in all sorts of reasoning every single argument should be managed as a mathematical demonstration.' It is indeed true that, iu all cases, a belief should be traced ' to the source on which it bottoms,'... | |
 | 1882 - 1112 страници
...Probability, see Essay, Bk. IV. chs. 15, 16, and ch. 17, J 5. It is by no means correct to say that ' in all sorts of reasoning every single argument should be managed as a mathematical demonstration.' It is indeed trae that, in all cases, » belief should be traced ' to the source on which it bottoms,'... | |
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