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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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • ANTIPHRASIShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANTIPHRASIS

    the contrary. See FIGURE and IRONY. The Word is derived from the Greek ἀντί and φράσις, of φράζω, I speak. 'Tis a common Error, to make Antiphrases consist in a single Word; as when we say that the Parsae are thus called by Antiphrasis, because they...

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

  • ARABICIhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARABICI

    was called to stop the progress of the rising sect; that Origen assisted at it and convinced them so thoroughly of their error, that they abjured it. ARABICI

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

  • AURUM FULMINANShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AURUM%20FULMINANS

    said to be principally downwards; in opposition to gunpowder, which is chiefly upwards; but this rather seems a vulgar error. See GUN-POWDER. A scruple of this powder acts more forcibly than half a pound of gunpowder: a single grain laid on the point of...

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

  • Lawhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law

    to Things; as Trespass, Nuisance, Deforcement, &c. Remedied by Writs of Quare Impedit, Darrein Presentment, Appeal, Atteint, Error, Right, Disceit, Superfedeas, Audita Querela, &c. Suit, or Course of Proceedings whereby Redress is procured; including,...

    • Type: Category

  • ARTIFICIALhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARTIFICIAL

    as a Thing very different from Nature; and artificial Things, from natural ones: Whence arises another more grievous Error, viz. that Art is a different Principle built upon Nature, and of such Power, as to be able, either to perfect what Nature had...

    • 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

  • ACCEPTANCEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/ACCEPTANCE

    etc. There are two kinds of acceptances; the one solemn, the other tacit. The solemn acceptance is a formal act whereby some error or scandal which the Pope condemns is expressly condemned by the acceptor. Infinite disputes and schisms have been raised...

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

  • ASPIRATIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASPIRATION

    an θ and an Aspirate. See CONSONANT. Hence it evidently follows, that Aspirates are real Consonants; and that it must be an Error to rank ע,מ, ה א , of the Eastern Languages, among the Vowels; and to exclude the A in ours, out of the Number of Letters....

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

  • ABJURATIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/theology/ABJURATION

    a solemn Renunciation, or Recantation of an Error, Heresy, or false Doctrine. See RECANTATION. The Word is form'd of the Latin Abjurare ; which in Cicero, and other Roman Writers, signifies the denying a thing upon Oath. Thus, Abjurare creditum, was to...

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

  • ATTAINDERhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/ATTAINDER

    base: Nor can this corruption of blood be saved but by an act of parliament, unless the judgment be reversed by a writ of error. See ATTAINTED. Our ancient laws make this difference between attainder and conviction, that a man was said to be convicted...

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

  • ABELIANShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/theology/ABELIANS

    time without any use of Marriage ; and till the Time when he begot Seth : but to say that this was 130 Years is a manifest Error, and contrary to their own Chronologies, which place Seth's Birth in the 130th Year of the World, or of Adam's Life ; as may...

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