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  • THE PREFACEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/preface

    of Science: Such are the Laws of Nature, the Associations of Bodies, the Rules and Canons of Right and Wrong, Truth and Error, the Properties of Lines and Numbers, &c. Science, in effect, is the Result of mere Reason and Sense in their general or...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Introduction

  • ACADEMICKShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ACADEMICKS

    and in Suspense; as having nothing to determine on but bare Probability or Verisimilitude, which is as likely to lead into Error as Truth.See PROBABILITY, TRUTH, ERROR, &c. It must be added, that Plato, in thus recommending it to his Disciples to...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • AMENDMENThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/AMENDMENT

    in Law, the Correction of an Error committed in a Process, and espied before Judgment. See ERROR. If the Error be committed in giving Judgment, viz. a wrong Judgment be given, there, they cannot amend it; but the Party aggrieved must bring his Writ of...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Law

  • ASSOCIATION OF IDEAShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASSOCIATION%20OF%20IDEAS

    mere Accident or Habit; this unnatural Association becomes a great Imperfection, and is generally speaking, a main Cause of Error, or wrong Deductions in reasoning. See ERROR, etc. Thus the Idea of Goblins and Sprites, has really no more Affinity with...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • ALTITUDEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mathematics/geometry/ALTITUDE

    Sum is the perpendicular Altitude required.The Operation is best performed by Logarithms, See LOGARITHM. If there happen an Error in taking the Quantity of the Angle A,(Fig. 24.) the true Altitude BD will be to the false one BC; as the Tangent of the...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Geometry

  • ASSIGNhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/ASSIGN

    Assign also signifies to point out, or set forth Thus we say, to assign the real Cause of such an Event, etc. So, to assign Error, is to show in what part of a Process at Law, an Error is committed. See ERROR. To assign false fundament, Verdict, &c. is...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Law

  • ASTRONOMYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASTRONOMY

    lished in 1645, wherein he endeavoured to amend Kepler’s Theory, and render the Calculus more exact and Geometrical. Some Errors committed by Bullialdus were pointed out by Dr. Seth Ward, in his Inquiry into the Philolaic Astronomy, published in 1653;...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • APPEARANCEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/APPEARANCE

    and the like Doctrine is held by some later Philosophers. See ACADEMIC and QUALITY. See also BODY, EXTERNAL WORLD, etc. Our Errors arise chiefly from a too hasty and precipitate Assent of the Will, which acquiesces too easily in the Appearances of...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • ABSURDITYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/logics/ABSURDITY

    ABSURDITY, Absurdities, is a kind of Error, or Offense against some evident, and generally allowed Truths or Principle. See ERROR, MAXIM, &c. The greatest of all Absurdities is the Contradiction. See CONTRADICTION. The Schoolmen make two Species of...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Logics

  • ANACHRONISMhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/chronology/ANACHRONISM

    in Matters of Chronology, an Error in Computation of Time; whereby an Event is placed earlier than it really happened. See TIME, and CHRONOLOGY. Such is that of Virgil, who places Dido in Africa at the Time of Aeneas; though, in reality, she did not...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Chronology

  • ACATALEPSIAhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/philosophy/ACATALEPSIA

    and ACADEMY. They declaimed much against the Senses; and charged them with a principal Hand in reducing and leading us into Error. See SENSE, ERROR, TRUTH, FALSHOOD, DOUBTING, &c. The Word is a Compound of the Privative α (alpha), and κατάληψις...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Philosophy

  • ACThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/ACT

    the Inquisitors to the secular power, with an earnest entreaty that no blood may be shed. If they persist in their supposed errors, they are burned alive. Acts, in poetry, are certain divisions or principal parts in a dramatic poem, contrived to give a...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Physics

  • AMBLEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/biotechnology/manage/AMBLE

    In effect, Ambling by the Tramel appears the nearest to Nature, the best and most assured way. See TRAMEL. There are divers Errors usually practised in this Method: as, ‘That the Tramel is oft made too long, and so gives no Stroke; but makes a Horse...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Manage

  • ARThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ART

    into the History of Generations, of Pretergenerations, and of Arts.—The first considers Nature at Liberty; the second, her Errors; and the third, her Restraints. Art is also used for Science or Knowledge reduced into Practice. See KNOWLEDGE. Several of...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • ACEPHALUShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ACEPHALUS

    Peter Mongus, but afterwards abandoned him upon his subscribing to the Council of Chalcedon; they themselves sticking to the errors of Eutyches.Of the adherents of Severus of Antioch and of all in general who refused to admit the Council of...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • ASTROLOGYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASTROLOGY

    for him? That, when the Head made its Appearance; or when the whole Body was disengaged? I say nothing of the common Errors of Clocks, and other Time-keepers; sufficient to elude all your Cares. Again, why are we to regard only the Stars at his...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • AFFIRMATIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AFFIRMATION

    for the Affirmative. See VOTE. "Affirmative" is particularly applied in the Roman Inquisition, to such heretics as own the errors and opinions they are charged withal; and maintain the same in their examination with firmness and resolution. See...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • ASTATIhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASTATI

    or ASTARII or ASTARTI, a Sect of Heretics in the ninth Century, the Followers of one Sergius, who renewed the Errors of the Manichees. See MANICHEE. They prevailed much under the Emperor Nicephorus; but his nephew Michael Curopalates, curbed them with...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • ANDROIDEShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANDROIDES

    text with carriage returns before each word and its definition, closely adhering to the original while correcting OCR errors and including Greek words in their original characters: ANDROIDES

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • APOTACTITAhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/APOTACTITA

    primitive Christians, renounced all their Effects and Possessions. See APOSTOLIC. It does not appear that they gave into any Errors during their first State: Some Ecclesiastical Writers assure us, they had divers Holy Virgins, and Martyrs, under the...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified
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