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  • ATTRIBUTEShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/logics/ATTRIBUTES

    ATTRIBUTES, in Logic, is an Epithet given to any Subject; Or it is any predicate thereof; or whatever may be affirmed or denied of any thing. See SUBJECT, PREDICATE, etc. Every Proposition consists of a Subject, an Attribute, and a Conjunctive Particle....

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

  • ATTRIBUTEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/philosophy/ATTRIBUTE

    ATTRIBUTE, ATTRIBUTUM, in Philosophy, a Property which agrees to some Person, or Thing; or a Quality, which determines something to be after a certain Manner. See PROPERTY and QUALITY. Thus, Understanding is an Attribute of Mind; Figure, an Attribute of...

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

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

    'TIS not without some Concern that I put this Work in the Reader's Hands; a Work so disproportionate to a single Person's Experience, and which might have employ'd an Academy. What adds to my Jealousy, is the little measure of Time allow'd for a...

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

  • AIRhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/AIR

    AIR, Air, in Physics, a thin, fluid, transparent, compressible, and dilatable Body; surrounding the terraqueous Globe to a considerable Height. See EARTH, and TERRAQUEOUS. It's considered by some of the Ancients as an Element; but then, by Element they...

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

  • ADJUNCThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/philosophy/ADJUNCT

    ADJUNCT, Adjunctum, in philosophy, something added to a being from without. See ADJUNCTION. Or, an adjunct is an additament or accession to a thing, not essentially belonging to it, but only accidental thereto.See ACCIDENT. There are two kinds of...

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

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

    AFFIRMATION, Affirmatio, a positive Proposition, alleging the Truth of something. See PROPOSITION, and TRUTH. Affirmation is defined by the Logicians, an Act whereby we attribute one Idea to another; as supposing it to belong, or agree thereto—As when,...

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

  • APOSTLEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/APOSTLE

    APOSTLE, Ἀπόστολος, q.d. Envoy or Messenger; a Disciple of Jesus Christ, commissioned by him to preach his Gospel, and propagate it to all the Parts of the Earth. See GOSPEL. St. Paul is frequently called the Apostle, by way of Eminence; and the Apostle...

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

  • ABSTRACThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/philosophy/ABSTRACT

    ABSTRACT, ABSTRACTUM, in Philosophy, that which Mind called Abstractum. See ABSTRACTION. An ABSTRACT Idea, is some simple Idea, detach'd and separated from any particular Subject, or Complex Idea ; for the sake of viewing and considering it more...

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

  • APOSTOLIChttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/APOSTOLIC

    APOSTOLIC, Ἀποστολικός, Apostolicus, something that belongs to the Apostles, or descends from them. See APOSTLE. Thus, we say the Apostolic Age, Apostolic Doctrine, Apostolic Character, etc. The Romanists call their Church, the Catholic and Apostolic...

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

  • ANTHROPOPATHYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANTHROPOPATHY

    ANTHROPOPATHY, a Figure, Expression or Discourse, whereby something is attributed to God, which properly belongs only to Man. Anthropopathy is frequently used promiscuously with Anthropology; yet in strictness, they ought to be distinguished as the...

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

  • ATTRACTIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/mechanics/ATTRACTION

    ATTRACTION, Attractio, or Tractio, in Mechanics, the Act of a moving Power, whereby a Moveable is brought nearer to the Mover. See POWER and MOTION. As Action and Re-action are always equal, and contrary; it follows, that in all Attraction, the Mover is...

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

  • ADMINICLEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/politics/ADMINICLE

    ADMINICLE, Adminiculum, Adminiculatum, a term used in some ancient statutes, for aid, help, or support.See AID, etc. In the civil jurisprudence, adminiculum signifies the beginning of a proof; an imperfect proof; a circumstance or conjecture, tending to...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Politics - Policy - Justice

  • AFFECTIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/AFFECTION

    AFFECTION, Affectio, in Physics, a Quality or Property of some natural Being. See QUALITY, and PROPERTY. The Schoolmen define Affection an Attribute proper to any Being, arising from the Essence thereof. See ATTRIBUTE, PROPER, etc. Affections are...

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

  • ARTICLEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARTICLE

    had Recourse hereto, for fixing and ascertaining the Vague Signification of common and appellative Names. See NAME and ATTRIBUTIVE. The Greeks have their το, the eastern Tongues their be Emphaticum; the Italians their il, lo, and la.—The French their...

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

  • ANALOGYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANALOGY

    ANALOGY, a certain Relation, Proportion, or Agreement, which several Things, in other respects different, bear to each other.—Such is that between the Bull in the Heavens, and the Animal so called on Earth. The Word is Greek, Ἀναλογία (Analogia); which...

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

  • ANTICORhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANTICOR

    ANTICOR, Anticoeur or Anticogur, or Avant-Coeur, among Farriers, is usually described as a preternatural Swelling, of the Size and Figure of an Apple, occasioned by a sanguine and bilious Humour; and appearing in the Horse’s Breast opposite to his...

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

  • Theologyhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/theology

    THEOLOGY, or the Consideration of GOD: his Nature and Attributes, as Eternity, Ubiquity, &c. His Unity, Trinity, &c. Persons, Hypostasis. &c. Our Duty to him, discover'd by Inspiration, Revelation, Prophecy, &c. by the Mesiah, Evangelisis, Apostles,...

    • Type: Category

  • VIEW OF KNOWLEDGEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/view-of-knowledge

    1 METEOROLOGY, or the History of AIR and ATMOSPHERE: including, 1°, that of its Contents, Æther,Fire,Vapour, Exhalation, &c. 2°, Meteors form'd therein, as Cloud, Rain, Shower, Drop, Snow, Hail, Dew, Damp, &c. Rainbow, Parhelion, Halo, Thunder, Water-...

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

  • ARKhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mathematics/geometry/ARK

    ARK, or Arc, or Arch, Arēs, in Geometry, Astronomy, etc. See ARC. Ark, Arca, in the Scripture-Language, a kind of floating Vessel built by Noah, for the Preservation of the several Species of Animals, from the Deluge. See DELUGE. The Ark has afforded...

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

  • AETHERhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AETHER

    AETHER, is usually understood of a thin, subtle Matter, or Medium, much finer and rarer than Air; which commencing from the Limits of our Atmosphere, possesses the whole heavenly Space. See HEAVEN, WORLD, etc. The Word is Greek, αιθηρ, supposed to be...

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